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You can go out feet first, and that's not my desire, or you can say, I think we've served with distinction, and this is the time to go home and seek a new challenge.

I am connected to the past in a way that keeps me going forward. Every leap forward that I make is by reaching back and firmly getting a footing in the past, and pushing forward as hard as I can.

It's hard to avoid the past but one goes forward.

I guess I'm living in the present more than the past.

I have a foot here and a foot in some spirit world. There are many more layers to reality, and that permeates my life and my writing in a very natural way. I don't even think about it.

I try to pride myself in having really quick feet and being able to set up and throw balls in time.

I know that my foot is firmly wedged in the door, and I'll be damned if I pull it out, even for a second.

I've never been up with the times, always been slightly out of step.

It was only when I started to dig my heels in that I started to realize that's what I needed to do - that nobody was going to open the door for me, that I had to make some space.