I like my squishy, red, high-heeled Vivienne Westwood jelly shoes. They make you seem like you're much more of a go-er.
Fundamentally, I think of myself as a storyteller, not a writer.
Fix your eyes forward on what you can do, not back on what you cannot change.
The good old days are now.
What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It's not good at much else.
Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. . . Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. . . Because the dream is within you. No one can take your dream away.
The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.
I had a cousin once who lived in your dictionary, inside the binding, and there was a tiny hole which he used for a door, and it led out between trichotomy and trick. Now what do you think of that? It was only a few minutes walk to trigger, then over the page to trinity, trinket and trional, and there my cousin used to fall asleep.
I'm tired of pretending I'm not special.
To get enough to eat was regarded as an achievement. To get drunk was a victory.
I think of everything that I want to say and then I think of the way that I can say it most precisely. And this has to do with poetry too, to me, that poetry helps me focus on the details of language.