I learned that what happened to me did not have to define who I was. My past could not control my future unless I allowed it to.
I think every first-person narrator in a novel should be compromised. I prefer that word to unreliable.
Victorian values meant brutalizing people who were often poor.
To exist is to be betrayed, since we exist for others only by virtue of what we betray of ourselves to them.
I hope for your help to explore and protect the wild ocean in ways that will restore the health and, in so doing, secure hope for humankind. Health to the ocean means health for us.
Everyone has their personal topics. My comedy has always been very strong on observational humor, it stems from what I see every day in my life.
Money never made a fool of anybody; it only shows them up.
A poem's essential discovery can happen at a single sitting. The cascade of discoveries in an essay, or even finding a question worth exploring in one, seems to need roughly the time it takes to plant and harvest a crop of bush beans.