I am politically pro-choice, but personally pro-life. I have my faith but refuse to force it on the world at large - especially this world, so brutal and unjust. I cannot make these wrenching personal life and death decisions for others - nor do I believe they should be made by a church run by childless men.

Love is selfless, it is a weakness, a giving in, a constant falling.

Different genres allow me to not feel so hemmed in by my own voice, tics, style.

I believe we're brutes, but then, miraculously, there are those among us who stand up against that brutishness and remind us of the goodness we're capable of.

Is it wrong to kill something that wants to kill you?

She knows that whispers can be useful. Sometimes they contain real information. But usually they're fairy tales and lies. This is the worst kind of whisper, the kind that draws you in, gives you hope.

The poem has to bear the weight with image, language... the screenplay with dialogue, plot.