Fiction becomes a place where I face certain fears such as losing language or losing my children.

Spelling is a way to make words safe, at least for now, until another technology appears to soften attacks launched from the mouth.

Being with him was like being alone underwater - everything was slow; nothing counted; I could not be harmed; I would feel dry and cold when I resurfaced.

It amazes me that parents are allowed to raise kids. There's so much power and often very little accountability.

It's lonely to listen to the pleasure of others, not that I've made a habit of that kind of eavesdropping. There's joy and passion in the next room, in the next bed, but it's not yours.

In some sense, prose fiction is just a way of unlocking a space. If I can unlock the space, it comes out and it's vivid, I find that I care about it, and it's part of me.

Eventually you stop paying attention to your own feelings when there's nothing to be done about them.

I'm attracted to how fraught the parent-child relationship is, swerving so easily between love and hostility, with almost no plausible way to end, unless someone dies.

Suspense left my life a long time ago, now it has returned. I do not care for it.

A self needed to spill out sometimes, a body should show evidence of what the hell went on inside it.

A misspelled word is probably an alias for some desperate call for aid, which is bound to fail.

It's better to be loved than feared, but if you can't be loved, then fear will do.-Dino quoting Machiavelli

One does not simply tell an archangel they have devoted their life to a folly.

Wisdom is the byproduct of lifelong experience and education.

I read everyday, because reading takes me away, away to a place where nothing is impossible.

I’m quite capable of taking responsibility for my own death.

People don't change when they don't acknowledge their actions.

I don't know how anyone can work on people's mouths all day long. That disgusts me. I'd rather work on the other end than work on mouths.

I'm a very kind of personable person and I love people.

I'd like to fly, but my wings have been so denied.

Religion: Together we can find the cure.