Autobiography is a genre notorious for falsehood.
When I had no roof I made audacity my roof.
Deciding to remember, and what to remember, is how we decide who we are.
To talk about the reality of life here and the work that you do here at the university.
There is much appeal for me in Eastern religion, the little I know of it. And something thorny in me finds American adaptations of Buddhism terribly self-indulgent, silly, gooey in the way the English call "wet."
If what you want to do is make good art, decide whats good and try to imitate it.