Kindness to me is only powerful if it has the cruel streak behind it. If someone is kind all the time under all circumstances, they're just simple-minded. Kindness is only worth something if you have the cruel streak to back it up.

My name is Luka I live on the second floor. I live upstairs from you, yes, I think you've seen me before.

Yes I think I'm okay, walked into the door again.

I still consider myself a feminist.

Last year's troubles, They shine up so prettily, They gleam with a lustre they don't have today.

I still feel conflicted because I don't always get to spend as much time with my daughter as I'd like, given my work.

A lot of my writing is not terribly civilized. Sometimes I listen to songs by very smart writers who assume that the world is a civil place with certain formalities that people follow, but I don't see things that way. My own experience tells me that life is not like that. That's why I write the way I do.