Happy is what you realize you are a fraction of a second before it's too late.

Fashion is fickle, and I was published because I was fashionable. Because I was gay.

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.

Oh. To be filled with goodness then shattered by goodness, so beautifully mosaically fragmented by such shocking goodness.

But everything written has style. The list of ingredients on the side of a cornflakes box has style. And everything literary has literary style. And style is integral to a work. How something is told correlates with - more - makes what's being told. A story is its style.

I don't want a tombstone. You could carve on it 'She never actually wanted a tombstone.'

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