It is important to know the stories and histories of things, even if all we know is that we don't know.

remember you must live. remember you most love. remainder you mist leaf.

All we are is eyes looking for the unbroken or the edges where the broken bits might fit each other.

I wouldn't call my work Modernist. I would rust if I try to think about labels. I'd feel like the Tin Man in 'The Wizard of Oz.

Outside the leaves on the trees constricted slightly; they were the deep done green of the beginning of autumn. It was a Sunday in September. There would only be four. The clouds were high and the swallows would be here for another month or so before they left for the south before they returned again next summer.

I want to be bored. But I can't. But I really don't want to be this thing that I'm having to be instead of being bored.

You never know if you're a writer. You can't trust it. If you woke up and said, "I'm a writer," it would be gone. You wouldn't see anything for miles - even the dust would be running away.