Innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself.
Everything goes. I am working very hard at not thinking about how everything goes.
It is easy to see the beginnings of things, and harder to see the ends.
Water is important to people who do not have it, and the same is true of control.
It's hard to find a book that's safe to write. Because one always goes to dark or difficult places.
A pool is, for many of us in the West, a symbol not of affluence but of order, of control over the uncontrollable. A pool is water, made available and useful, and is, as such, infinitely soothing to the western eye.