I am really an introvert, and I need that time alone for a variety of reasons.
At the end of my sufferingthere was a door.
We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory.
That's why I'm not to be trusted. Because a wound to the heart is also a wound to the mind
I caution you as I was never cautioned: You will never let go, you will never be satiated. You will be damaged and scarred, you will continue to hunger. Your body will age, you will continue to need. You will want the earth, then more of the earth-- Sublime, indifferent, it is present, it will not respond. It is encompassing, it will not minister. Meaning, it will feed you, it will ravish you. It will not keep you alive.
I am attracted to ellipsis, to the unsaid, to suggestion, to eloquent, deliberate silence. The unsaid, for me, exerts great power: often I wish an entire poem could be made in this vocabulary. It is analogous to the unseen.
The advantage of poetry over life is that poetry, if it is sharp enough, may last.
It is better to have had your wish than to have wish you had.
Horror grows impatient, rhetorically, with the Stoic fatalism of Ecclesiastes. That we are all going to die, that death mocks and cancels every one of our acts and attainments and every moment of our life histories, this knowledge is to storytelling what rust is to oxidation; the writer of horror holds with those who favor fire. The horror writer is not content to report on death as the universal system of human weather; he or she chases tornadoes. Horror is Stoicism with a taste for spectacle.
What makes people angry and we are on the side of hard-working people who want to get on in life and they see how government is wasting their money.
Programming is an explanatory activity.