Teaching writing puts you on the point of a pin in terms of what you want your own writing to be.

I grew up flying over oceans and moving and sailing.

I know perfectly well that you can't not want anything and live.

When you're waiting for a bus, the thing to do is smoke a cigarette.

I wouldn't underestimate the power of writing a letter.

There's a lot of water in everything I've ever written. There's always oceans and pools.

That was one of the problems with the Narcissus figure. Here is a face looking at a face, and the problem is the image of the thing is never actually the thing. You try and grab it and it's not there. It's water. It disappears.