I don't read reviews and I don't know what to do with opinions, so I just lose them. They take up space, they become a process of manufacturing a persona, which I want to avoid.

When they made love Geryon liked to touch in slow succession each of the bones of Herakles' back as it arched away from him into who knows what dark dream of its own, running both hands all the way down from the base of the neck to the end of the spine which he can cause to shiver like a root in the rain.

All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies.

I am a drop of gold he would say I am molten matter returned from the core of earth to tell you interior things-

Making is always a slightly hopeful thing because once you've made something, it'll - the world will be different.

I do think I have an ability to record sensual and emotional facts and factoids, to construct a convincing surface of what life feels like, both physical life and emotional life.

Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.