I did not begin with craft, I began with strong feelings and worked toward craft.

... survival is the least of my desires.

Babies change things, open doors you thought were shut, close others. Make you into something you never been.

Beauty, my first girlfriend said to me, is that inner quality often associated with great amounts of leisure time.

Teenagers are free verse walking around on two legs.

If you just go get one of these little fine arts degrees or writing program degrees, it never forces you to confront your responsibility as narrator, whereas any of the social sciences make you at look the interaction between the storyteller and story.

Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I'd rather go naked than wear the coat the world has made for me.