Life works best when we think of people as people.
Hank, when people call people nerds mostly what they're saying is,'You like stuff'.
We idealize them as gods or dismiss them as animals.
The important thing is not whatever nonsense the voices are saying, but what the voices are feeling.
I believe in hope, in what is something called ”radical hope.” I believe there is hope for all of us, even amid the suffering. And that’s why I write fiction, probaby. It’s my attempt to keep that fragile strand of radical hope, to buld a fire in the darkness.r
In the contemporary world where things fall apart, and the centre cannot hold, you have to imagine a community where there is no centre. Hank, at the end of this year I started thinking that a lot of life is about doing things that don’t suck with people who don’t suck.