It's all about letting the story take over.

The annuals, the yearbooks, brochures and programs of old plays and musicals...that all tells the story about what they did.

I'm suspicious of their story, ... They are not out of the woods in this one yet.

At the time, acid made me consider questions of reality, the difference, as someone said, between words and silence. It also brought back a lot of latent religious feelings in me that I had turned my back on.

I thought a lot about my attitude toward the world, toward fear and violence, and that I had something to say about these things. If you had asked me then what I was writing about, I would have said, in a kind of Kerouac-like romantic vein, 'America.'

What is worst about America was acted out. What is best in America doesn't export.