Culture is a slingshot moved by the force of its past

Pure and unblemished souls must taste very bland, with an aftertaste of bitterness.

I concentrate on character, theme, language, structure, voice. It actually surprises me that no matter what I write, people declare it "intently political." I'm just writing about the world I know, as it is. Wounds and griefs included.

If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life.

Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, writers will go to stupefying lengths to get the infernal roar of words out of their skulls and onto paper.

Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.

We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.