Simply do something else and return to it later to find the problem wasn't a problem at all. Ruptures almost always lead to a stronger project.

Small, red, and upright he waited, gripping his new bookbag tight in one hand and touching a lucky penny inside his coat pocket with the other, while the first snows of winter floated down on his eyelashes and covered the branches around him and silenced all trace of the world.

When I began to be published, people got the idea that I should 'teach writing,' which I have no idea how to do and don't really believe in.

Up against another human being one's own procedures take on definition

Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows - dear stench.

It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.

At least half of your mind is always thinking, I'll be leaving; this won't last. It's a good Buddhist attitude. If I were a Buddhist, this would be a great help. As it is, I'm just sad.