Life and death matters, yes. And the question of how to behave in this world, how to go in the face of everything. Time is short and the water is rising.

It's strange. You never start out life with the intention of becoming a bankrupt or an alcoholic or a cheat and a thief. Or a liar.

I am a cigarette with a body attached to it

You've got to work with your mistakes until they look intended. Understand?

That's all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones.

Dreams, you know, are what you wake up from.

I guess my writing has changed as my life has.