I've always had life threats, and they've always been for real.
Trauma, and certain important experiences, can imprint on us at a genetic level.
We can't write a serious novel in the 21st century without acknowledging the inescapable self-awareness we're stuck with. The idea we're surrounded by falsehoods and lies. It's hard for the thinking person to believe in narratives. And yet we want some place to invest our belief.
I just write what I want to read, and sometimes keeping it interesting means adding one more element that ends up adding another year to the work.
I love poetry, read it a lot, but make no claim to being able to write it.
The idea that language can be recombined to create new forms, new things, is of course very old in poetry.
Absurdity isn't quite so absurd as it once was.
I heard the news today, oh boy.
Nothing is easier than sinning.
A self-willed man has no other aim than his own growth.
Dream as big as you can dream, and anything is possible.