An image is a bridge between evoked emotion and conscious knowledge; words are the cables that hold up the bridge. Images are more direct, more immediate than words, and closer to the unconscious. Picture language precedes thinking in words; the metaphorical mind precedes analytical consciousness.

Write in the kitchen, lock yourself up in the bathroom. Write on the bus or the welfare line, on the job or during meals.

Nothing happens in the 'real' world unless it first happens in the images in our heads

In trying to become 'objective,' Western culture made 'objects' of things and people when it distanced itself from them, thereby losing 'touch' with them.

the world I create in writing compensates for what the real world does not give me.

These my two hands / quick to slap my face / before others could slap it.

I had to leave home so I could find myself, find my own intrinsic nature buried under the personality that had been imposed on me.