"Ocean" is more about ... powerlessness and hopelessness. When we're very small we can't actually do anything - we have no say in what happens, we have no money or resources, we sometimes have no idea what's going on.

As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning.

There are a number of paths that lead to this place. I have been avoiding them for some small time, now.

Use your blog to connect. Use it as you. Don’t ‘network’ or ‘promote.’ Just talk.

I have a really high tolerance level for twits. I really do.

It's astonishing how much trouble one can get oneself into, if one works at it. And astonishing how much trouble one can get oneself out of, if one assumes that everything will, somehow or other, work out for the best.

That is the eternal folly of man. To be chasing after the sweet flesh, without realizing that it is simply a pretty cover for the bones.