I nearly always write — just as I nearly always breathe.
We have usurped many of the powers we once ascribed to God.
And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.
In early June the world of leaf and blade and flowers explodes, and every sunset is different.
..it's awful not to be loved. It's the worst thing in the world...It makes you mean, and violent, and cruel.
The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.