We are stimulated to emotional response, not by works that confirm our sense of the world, but by works that challenge it.

Sometimes I stumble upon a wonderfully irresistible to me voice, unexpectedly.

I could EAT YOUR HEART & asshole you'd never know it.

Yet I will make you all love me and I will punish myself to spite your love.

[Emily] Dickinson, our supreme poet of inwardness.

No, the thing is, we all love storytelling, and as a writer you get to tell stories all the time.

I work very slowly. It's like building a ladder, where you're building your own ladder rung by rung, and you're climbing the ladder. It's not the best way to build a ladder, but I don't know any other way.