I can't do it. I've been here before and it's not a room with a view. The only power I have is the negative power of withdrawal. If I don't withdraw I have no power at all. A relationship where one person has no power or negative power, isn't a relationship, it's the bond between master and slave.

I've never been tempted by God but I like his trappings.

Journalism encourages haste ... and haste is the enemy of art.

Poetry is easier to learn than prose. Once you have learned it you can use it as a light and a laser. It shows up your true situation and it helps you cut through it.

I think it would be very foolish not to take the irrational seriously.

...there are two kinds of writing: the one you write and the one that writes you.

It is just as likely that as I invent what I want to say, you will invent what you want to hear.