Artists and writers have to deal with the element that makes the real real and the dream real while you are dreaming it. That's where stories and poems get their power.
It is not important for me as a writer that you leave a piece of writing of mine with either an agreement or even a resonance with what I have said. What is important is that you leave with the resonance of what you have felt and what you thought in reaction to that.
A man must be able to hold his drink because drunkenness is sometimes necessary in this difficult life.
A man's greatest battles are the ones he fights within himself.