I just realized that we're facing here is an empathy gap. And this was just another way to generate conversation about something that nobody wanted to look at.

It is dangerous to live in a secure world.

Love perhaps includes the promise that when the mob comes for you I'll go against the mob.

It wasn't a deception: all lovers live on partial knowledge.

For purposes of marketing, writers are designated as poets, novelists, or something else. But writing is about matchmaking, an attempt to marry sensations with apt words.

Echo is very important to me. I love the repetition of motifs, or the slight alteration of what's been said before. This is part of how one creates a mood, a psychological caul, in fact, around the reader.

The White Savior Industrial Complex is not about justice. It is about having a big emotional experience that validates privilege.