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.

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.

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 don't know whose sensibility I'm responding to. Until someone starts pushing against what they've inherited and starts making their own decisions about language, it's difficult.

Look upward to himLook to him for everythingLook to him for answersLook to him for a listening ear

The meteorites of 1908 and 1947 had struck uninhabited wilderness

Her stillness defeated his storm.

I am something of a recluse by nature. I am that cordless screwdriver that has to charge for twenty hours to earn ten minutes use. I need that much downtime.

Everywhere the means is erected into the end, and the end itself is forgotten.

To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.

Dinner is often a stew of beans or legumes, which are awesome for dieting; they give you that meaty satisfaction and both are excellent with whole grain rice or bread.

Most of my writing consists of an attempt to translate aphorisms into continuous prose.

We hereby declare the end to the wall dividing the sacred from the profane: from now on, all is sacred.

I have a limited intelligence and I've used it in a particular direction.