Doing a life study while drunk and in the process of being seduced is never a formula for quality art.

Pain is an interesting and off-putting thing. Few if any things in life concentrate our attention so completely and terribly, and few things are more boring to listen to or read about.

... all good things beyond sleep come precisely because we defy gravity while we live.

A token of ecological awareness in a society devoted to self destruction and waste but unwilling to acknowledge its indulgent ways.

No lifetime is long enough for those ... who simply wish to understand themselves and their lives. It is, perhaps, the curse of being human, but also a blessing.

I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed

You have to live to really know things, my love