I am here, alone, at the end of the world. I reach out and touch nothing.”.

You are entering a phase of your life in which many different things will occur...bad things that seem good at first and good things that seem bad at first.

Distance might not solve anything, no matter how far you run.

People with dark souls have nothing but dark dreams. People with really dark souls do nothing but dream.

Mere humans who root through their refrigerators at three o'clock in the morning can only produce writing that matches what they do. And that includes me.

You like to write. It's the single most important quality for someone who wants to be a writer. But not in itself enough.

A poet might die at twenty-one, a revolutionary or a rock star at twenty four. But after that you assume everything’s going to be all right. you’ve made it past Dead Man’s Curve and you’re out of the tunnel, cruising straight for your destination down a six lane highway whether you want it or not.