How you spend your days is how you spend your life.

The extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation.

I write in my own journal when something extraordinary or funny happens. And there's some nice imagery in there. I don't think of what to do with it.

The more you read, the more you will write. The better the stuff you read, the better the stuff you will write.

Dan Gerber is one of our finest living poets.

I had been chipping at the world idly, and had by accident uncovered vast and labyrinthine further worlds within it.

It should surprise no one that the life of the writer - such as it is - is colorless to the point of sensory deprivation. Many writers do little else but sit in small rooms recalling the real world.