The phoenix must burn to emerge.

This was the life I was going to be living, everybody separated from everybody else, hanging on for a moment only to be washed away.

I use my fiction to explore my own unconscious issues. I usually don't even know what's going on with me until I'm writing.

Appealing to the five senses is the feature that will always set writing apart from the visual media. A good writer will tell us what the world smells like, what the textures are, what the sounds are, what the light looks like, what the weather is.

When you started thinking it was easy, you were forgetting what it cost.

And if there is no god? You act as if there is, and it's the same thing.

Their love as a dragonfly, skimming over echo park, stoppin to visit the lotus. Eating dreams and drinking blue sky.