We're all taking on too much, we're all asking too much of ourselves. We're all wishing we could do more, and therefore just doing more.

I have learned to get pleasure from speaking of pain

I think this is true for all artists. My senses are very important to me.

... sometimes I can feel it, the way we are pouring slowly toward a curve and around it through something dark and soft, and we are bound to each other.

So I did quit coffee and I did quit smoking. But I haven't managed that with drinking!

I wish I wrote more about the world at more distance from myself.

Well, one thing I'm really interested in, when I'm writing, is being accurate.