The greatest wisdom doesn't know itself. The richest plan is not to have one.
I have brothers and was a tomboy, if that's still a designation. It wasn't a stretch for me to think and write as a 13-year-old boy - it is freeing.
Things which do not grow and change are dead things.
It kills your writing if you try to manipulate it with crude politics.
We passed over in a sweep of sorrow that would persist into our small forever. We just keep going.
Of course, English is a very powerful language, a colonizer's language and a gift to a writer. English has destroyed and sucked up the languages of other cultures - its cruelty is its vitality.