Writing is immensely difficult. The short forms especially.

In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the person and the state. It's become a fact of life that governments have become very intimate with people, most always to their detriment.

My memories pale as I prevail upon them again and again. They become more and more ghostly. I fear nothing so much as losing them altogether and having only my blank endless mind to live in.

The act of composition is a series of discoveries.

When I'm writing, I like to seal everything off and face the wall, not to look outside the window. The only way out is through the sentences.

Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.

We are able to walk on air, but only as long as our illusion supports us.