The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable.

I guess everybody who isn't dead yet is a survivor.

You say what you have to say. But you have to learn to say it in such a way that the reader can see what you mean.

Sons of suicides seldom do well.

What is flirtatiousness but an argument that life must go on and on and on?

The surface of Earth heaved and seethed in fecund restlessness. Earth was most fertile where the most death was.

Find a subject you care about and which you in your heart feel others should care about. It is this genuine caring, and not your games with language, which will be the most compelling and seductive element in your style.