I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example.

...Don't rupture another's illusion unless you're positive the alternative you offer is more worthwhile than that from which you're wrenching them. Interrogate your solipsism: Does it offer any better a home than the delusions you're reaching to shatter?

Art is about eliminating almost everything in order to focus on the thing that you need to talk about.

To the resentment that hides inside love, to the loneliness that hides among companions.

Nature, or at least birds and women, abhorred the invisible man.

Tourette's is just one big lifetime of tag, really. The world (or my brain---same thing) appoints me it, again and again. So I tag back. Can it do otherwise? If you've ever been it you know the answer.

However appalling to consider, however tedious to enact, every novel requires furniture, whether it is to be named or unnamed, for the characters will be unable to remain in standing position for the duration of the story.