Listen to presences inside poems.
No. . . a novel is a long business. I'm a slow writer, even when I'm doing very well I write slowly.
Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.
Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself. Every story I write adds to me a little, changes me a little, forces me to reexamine an attitude or belief, causes me to research and learn, helps me to understand people and grow.
Beware: Ignorance Protects itself. Ignorance Promotes suspicion. Suspicion Engenders fear. Fear quails, Irrational and blind, Or fear looms, Defiant and closed. Blind, closed, Suspicious, afraid, Ignorance Protects itself, And protected, Ignorance grows.
All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth is Change. God is Change.
First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won't. Habit is persistence in practice.
In civilization, as in a southern latitude, man degenerates at length, and yields to the incursion of more northern tribes.
The premonition of madness is complicated by the fear of lucidity in madness, the fear of the moments of return and reunion. . . one would welcome chaos if one were not afraid of lights in it.
If I can have any impact, I want women to feel good about themselves and have fun with fashion
We'll climb with you and steal your women.