I felt sure about wanting to look at a person's life that had been limited or damaged, but not necessarily ennobled, by loss.

The act of language or the act of denying language carries its own heaviness.

Giving the reader the space to move around and be active, and encourage their active response is important to me. That will connect the reader more to the text.

There's relief in white space for the reader.

Synesthesia has interested me for a long time, both as a literary device and as a puncturing of the membranes that organize how the world comes into someone's head.

I have what I came to find in my research is a mild form of synesthesia, though I never would have labeled it as such. It's how I think about numbers and letters. They all have inherent genders.

For me, the genders are an essential element of numbers and letters, not something that could be removed from them.

If a synesthetic person says the letter a is green, it can't ever be anything but green.

I'm always interested in encountering people who are synesthetic and seeing how they experience things.

I find myself writing protagonists who do feel pretty cut off from others but who want to make connections and aren't very good at it.

Even in so-called realist or conventional writing there can be defamiliarization.

I never wanted to go away, and the hard part now is the leaving you all. I'm not afraid, but it seems as if I should be homesick for you even in heaven.

Classical music is the best, and cheapest, mind-altering drug in the world.

If you have to push yourself to do it, should you be doing it in the first place? That was a question I never dared to asked myself.

Vulnerability is strength. It is being honest about who you are & about your experiences.

Trust in the Lord. Your hope will never be disappointed.

From a distance I finally see, I completely understand, As I move forward to take my second step, Followed by a third step, Oh! You are easy to love like a sponge.

Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.

I believe that the Welfare State redistributes poverty and reduces income. As Karl Kraus once said of psychoanalysis, the Welfare State is the disease which it purports to cure.

Everyone in Life does Exactly what they Know How to Do Given the Conditions of their Lives

Quote: What angel wakes me from my flowery bed?