A literary achievement of the highest order.

To persevere is always a reflection of the state of one's inner life, one's philosophy and one's perspective

accident ruled every corner of the universe except the chambers of the human heart.

At one level you're condemned to the voice you have. But within those confines, you have a certain amount of freedom to range among your possible voices.

It's a brooding melancholy that haunts me.

I think you have an obligation to share what you know as a writer.

I became paralyzed as an artist with writer's block.