When You Get To Be 23, 24

I Was Once A Shameless, Full-time Dope Fiend.

I'm Not Being Analytical. I Just Create Everything Intuitively. If You're Too Analytical, What You're Doing Probably Ends Up Being Too Specific.

I Was Petrified Because All My Friends Would Be Going To Washington, Dc, To Protest. I Was Sixteen, And I Was Like, "i Don't Think I'll Be Going With You Guys," Just Because I Was Scared. Then You Saw The News, And Cops - Not Students In Schools With Guns - Cops Are Killing Sixteen Year Old Protesters On The News. To Me That Was More Horrifying, To Have The Authority Figures Actually Killing People On The Evening News, Than To Have Another Student Firing A Gun.

Once You're Directing, You're Kind Of In A Certain Mode, Where You're Taking Whatever Is On The Page And Forming It Into The Film That You Think It Might Want To Be. So Whether It's My Writing Or Not, I Still Try To Work With It In The Same Way.

Upon Entering My Vein, The Drug Would Start A Warm Edge That Would Surge Along Until The Brain Consumed It In A Gentle Explosion.it Began In The Back Of The Neck And Rose Rapidly Until I Felt Such Pleasure That The World Sympathizing Took On A Soft, Lofty Appeal.