An ear will never do you wrong, but I know writers who... most of the language they use is just extracted language from other languages they've read. I am a big-time reader, but I mix and match.

The art is just really mysterious. If I understood it more, maybe I would write more.

Books are wonderful, but they aren't that powerful.

You eventually erase her contact info from your phone but not the pictures you took of her in bed while she was naked and asleep, never those.

I've been trying to write. I also spent a lot of time on different campuses, in conversation, helping other writers. That's what I do: I teach them writing.

Love is the only thing - I don't want to say that "makes it bearable" - but I feel like without the possibility of love, this place would just devour us.

We're accepted as long as we conform to what we are expected to be, and I'm sure that's not any different for anyone else.