I read poetry every day. I love the boiled down essence of poetry. I look for poetry in prose. In a way that evocative.
What is art if not a concentrated and impassioned effort to make something with the little we have, the little we see?
I love short stories because I believe they are the way we live.
Somewhere, sometime I'd stopped expecting my father to father.
It is not hard to live through a day, if you can live through a moment.
For the twenty million Americans who are hungry tonight, for the homeless freezing tonight, literature is as useless as a knowledge of astronomy.