Whatever your supposed politics are - left, right - if you put it in a human connection, most people will rise to the occasion and feel the human pain in a way that they might not if it was presented in a more conceptual way.

There might be a different model for a literary community that's quicker, more real-time, and involves more spontaneity.

According to me, your life is going to be a gradual process of becoming kinder and more loving. Hurry up. Speed it along. Start right now.

Working with language is a means by which we can identify the bullshit within ourselves (and others).

I'm not a natural criticizer - I prefer to like and praise and so on.

I've found that my first drafts are not so special. But the more I work on them, the better they get. They are more unique and defensible.

I think it was a big revelation to me earlier in my life that people who appear to be evil are actually not. In other words, nobody wakes up in the morning and says, "Yuck, yuck, yuck, I'm gonna be evil."