It's only afterwards that it becomes anything like a story at all. When you're telling it, to yourself or to someone else.

I myself have 12 hats and each one represents a different personality. Why just be yourself.

You're never going to kill storytelling, because it's built into the human plan. We come with it.

he might die for her, but living for her would be quite different.

But remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withhold or bestow it is a power, perhaps the greatest. Maybe none of this is about control. Maybe it isn't really about who can own whom, who can do what to whom and get away with it, even as far as death. Maybe it isn't about who can sit and who has to kneel or stand or lie down, legs spread open. Maybe it's about who can do what to whom and be forgiven for it. Never tell me it amounts to the same thing.

Write down the thoughts and even more, write down a specific line. If you don't, it'll fly away forever.

I feel that the task of criticizing my poetry is best left to others (i.e. critics) and would much rather have it take place after I am dead. If at all.