I had the notion that I wanted to write the great dirty American novel, so I went to Roanoke College on the GI Bill.
“We teach teens what we think they ought to know, and we never tell them what they want to know.”
“I find it just simply takes me right back to those times, and I really can't take it, I don't want to, I mean, why should I face up to it? What good does it do me? I know it happened, and that's it.”