Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word.
You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself.
The nowness of everything is absolutely wondrous. [...] If you see the present tense, boy do you see it! And boy can you celebrate it.
A writer helps to show you things you knew but didn't know you knew.
Metaphor is embodied in language.
Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures.