They say all political lives end in failure, in which case all writing lives do, too. No one really does everything they set out to do, what they thought they could do, what they longed to do.
“You know what I love? Silence. I sit in the dark in silence a lot of nights, which my wife thinks is a little strange. But the kids go to bed, my wife goes to bed. If I can, I watch a movie, an old movie usually. And then, I come back into the house. I love how quiet it is and how dark it is. Two minutes, just sit there. It’s been very restorative.”
James Gray