Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.

The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?

The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose.

The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they've been in.

People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses.

Just letting it out is one of the definitions of bad art.

Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative.