from Sad & Beautiful World #1, spring 2004.  The back cover.  For years, whenever someone has asked me what I want to do with my life, I say: “I want to travel.  I want to get drunk and stare at the stars.  I want to fall down in the gutter.  I want to tell stories, and I want to be in love.”  Those things are still, precisely, what I want.  Anything else is just icing on the cake.