I think I view myself primarily as a fiction writer. Poetry is more of a "hobby," a time of rest from the hard work of writing fiction.

I find that biographical material holds me back, hampers my creative process, cramps my imagination.

I must say that, on the whole, I prefer fiction to poetry.

How can you teach someone to be creative? You have to create yourself.

In fact, the very phrase "teaching creative writing" sounds to me oxymoronic. How can you teach someone to be creative?

Imagination is so much more fertile than life.

It is true that I didn't write any poetry between 1995 and 2011. The reason for this was probably because I had stayed away from fiction for so long and couldn't tear myself away from it.

Except for the usual house chores, doing income tax, etc., I am free to write whenever I want.

That is one more reason why I write in English only right now. I prefer writing in the language I hear around me for the people by whom I am surrounded.

What is written is merely the dregs of experience.

Only the ones who run are worth catching.

INITIATIVE, AGGRESSION, AIR DISCIPLINE, and TEAM WORK are words that MEAN something in Air Fighting.

There ought to be things we should like to do and cannot do because our charitable expenditures excludes them.

To start from the self and try to understand all things is delusion. To let the self be awakened by all things is enlightenment.

Her legs went on forever, like staring at infinity through a wisp of cotton panty along a skin of satin sea.

Anyone that's ever had their kitchen done over knows that it never never gets done as soon as you wish it would.

It is God's objective to make your condition line up with your position.

We are like coral animals in a vast reef of excreted technological material that is wired for solid state data transfer.

Learn to humble yourself, you are but earth and clay.