Worse, the bodies of women, minorities, children, disenfranchised bodies (prisoners, so-called nut cases, etc...) and their truths don't "count" as either present and important in society or worth Pulitzer prizes as characters in literature.

The rocks. They carry the chronology of water. All things simultaneously living and dead in your hands.

I just want my stories to be mine.

In water, like in books—you can leave your life.

I am not alone. Whatever else there was or is, writing is with me.

Aspiration gets stuck in some people. It's difficult to think yes. Or up. When all you feel is fight or run.

I love the walking contradiction of the body. I want to make corporeal characters, corporeal writing, I want to bring the intensities and contradictions and beauty and violence and stench and desire and astonishing physicality of the body back into literature.