I started with poetry because it was direct, immediate, and short. It was the ecstasy of striking matches in the dark.

Because I loved myself, I was loved.

I am not quite sure how writing changes things, but I know that it does. It is indirect-like the trails of earthworms aerating the earth. It is not always deliberate-like the tails of glowing dust dragged by comets.

Most sex is not really intimate.

You don't get to choose what you get famous for and you don't get to control which of your life's many struggles gets to stand for you.

Sex has the unparalleled power to make us absurd to ourselves. It also has the power to make us understand transcendence.

Why does life need evidence of life?