To me the seventies represent normality, and, of course, it is a normality that is now anachronistic.

The quality of that 'who I am', is what I hope comes out in the writing.

The research reading I did for Fascination and Liberation included some Jung, and I noticed that he had a similar impression of Buddhism to myself, that, if it weren't for certain qualifying clauses, the philosophy would be downright suicidal.

[Antinatalism ] seems to oppose the idea of writing anything at all. To reproduce is to pass on genes. To write is to pass on memes. In that sense, it really is a kind of reproduction, which antinatalism should, theoretically, oppose, or at least which I feel that it opposes emotionally in my own experience.

I've drifted in and out of vegetarianism for years.

Lots of things were there [in the seventies], in the social experience, but not quite named, lurking like a stranger on the edge of the playground.

[My muse] feels nostalgic for Japan, and, perhaps strangely, for the pioneer days of America.