Do you remember when they taught cursive in schools? I think they don't anymore. But I still enjoy it - just the physical act and all the - the whole business of making a thing out of language.

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

Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public.

What is an adjective? Nouns name the world. Verbs activate the names. Adjectives come from somewhere else. The word adjective (epitheton in Greek) is itself an adjective meaning 'placed on top', 'added', 'appended', 'foreign'. Adjectives seem fairly innocent additions, but look again. These small imported mechanisms are in charge of attaching everything in the world to its place in particularity. They are the latches of being.

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

What makes life life and not a simple story? Jagged bits moving never still, all along the wall.

There is no person without a world.