The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them — words make them smaller than they actually are. How can you expect people to believe you when you stand there blubbering, for Christ's sake, with tears running down your face, telling them how much you love so-and-so? You can't. The important things lie too close to your true self, whatever that is, for them to be gotten at easily. You finally arrive at the truth, but it's like pulling teeth. And when you get the all-important truth out, something happens. The truth is, you've got to be a little crazy to write, and you've got to be a little crazy to read, and you've got to be a little crazy to live.