People who talk a lot about their victimization make me uncomfortable. It's as if they use their suffering as weapons or badges of some kind.
Fiction, on the other hand, is like swamp fire.
Poetry is a kind of gasp, and there it is, a spark on the page. Fiction, on the other hand, is like swamp fire.
Language to me is a tool a very clumsy tool. And words are garden tools with which to till the soil of one's life.