My writing, like everything I do, comes profoundly from my heart. I believe that if you follow your heart you will be successful in one way or another. Old-fashioned as that might sound, the philosophy is true.
Local color has a fatal tendency to remain local; but it is also true that the universal often borders on the void.
I got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise, grew discouraged, and traveled on.