Come t'e' picciol fallo amaro morso! Dante. What grievous pain a little fault doth give thee!

Compassion is nothing one feels with the intellect alone. Compassion is particular; it is never general.

My protagonists, male and female, are me.

Stories are able to help us to become more whole, to become Named. And Naming is one of the impulses behind all art; to give a name to the cosmos, we see despite all the chaos.

An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers. To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy... If I try self-consciously to become a person, I will never be one. The most real people, those who are able to forget their selfish selves, who have true compassion, are usually the most distinct individuals

No matter how true I believe what I am writing to be, if the reader cannot also participate in that truth, then I have failed.

Goodness has never been a guarantee of safety.