By telling you anything at all I'm at least believing in you, I believe you're there, I believe you into being.

All you have to do, I tell myself, is keep your mouth shut and look stupid. It shouldn't be that hard.

Though as he'd say, what is 'belief' but a willingness to suspend the negatives?

Don't eat anything you aren't prepared to kill. Don't kill anything you aren't prepared to eat.

A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.

I was kidnapped by literature at a young age and never wanted to be ransomed.

Writing of the narrative kind, and perhaps all writing, is motivated deep down, by a fear or and fascination with mortality - by a desire to make the risky trip to the underworld and to bring something or someone back from the dead.