You can never be an artist if your work comes without effort. That is the problem with modernink from a bottle. You do not have to think. You simply write what is swimming on the top of your brain. And the top is nothing but pond scum, dead leaves, and mosquito spawn.

If you are greedy, what is inside you is what makes you always hungry.

It is because I had so much joy that I came to have so much hate.

Over time, passion wanes, differences don't.

Secrets are kept from children, a lid on top of the soup kettle, so they do not boil over with too much truth.

Language is the tool of my trade -and I use them all - all the Englishes I grew up with

That was how dishonesty and betrayal started, not in big lies but in small secrets.