Literature is fighting for its very life because compromise is mistook for ambition, and joining up is preferred to standing out …

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.

If you start identifying your inner self with the spirit of pure potentiality then you are aligning with the power that helps in the manifestation of all energy in the form of matter.

There is really no substitute for a well thought out and perfectly executed plan of action.

...when you're a writer, you become deeper and more uniquely distinct, the more you go inside yourself...

Ask yourself if you’re taking the time to see beyond the surface.

They say opposites attract. Nobody ever said opposites live happily ever after.

No, you don’t have to be perfect or completely healed and whole to manifest your SoulMate, and neither do they.

Journalism largely consists in saying "Lord Jones is dead" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive.

You may not have any extra talent, but maybe you are just paying more attention to what you are doing.

There aren't reasons why you like this song or this piece of music, or don't like it. It's just, it's either right or wrong, you know?