I wanted to go to Portland because it's a really good book town.

We needed time to figure out what all of this meant, how we were going to come to terms and redefine what our love was called. I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth.

The film [Dream of Life] is not really an amateur work, despite the fact that none of us have ever done anything like this before; aesthetically, none of us are amateurs.

My style of performance poetry came from the beatniks, Allen Ginsberg.

It was like being at an Arabian hoedown with a band of psychedelic hillbillies (p. 171).

Paths that cross will cross again

Writing is not some quiet, closet act.