A Particular Piece Of Music Attaches Itself

We Apply The Language That Is Comforting And Comfortable And Familiar In Order To Grasp That Which Confuses And Scares Us. That Is The First Step Toward Cliché And Stereotype, As They're Comforting Devices. They Reduce The Confusing World To The Already Familiar. We're Always Smoothing Out The Bumps Of Actual Living To Turn It Into Narratable Life.

I Want To Change Something. I Want To Stop The Germs From Attacking My Daughters.

I Resist When Someone Calls Me A Novelist: It Implies Some Kind Of Inherent Superiority Of The Novel. I'm Not A Novelist, I'm A Writer.

There Is A Logic [to My Reading], But I Can't Define It. I Like Reading Impulsively. I Collect Books, I Have A Lot Of Them, But Most Of Them I Have Not Read Yet. I'll Read Them When They Call Me From The Shelf.

There Is A Point In Fighting. There Is A Point In Struggle. Not Wholesale Revolution, Maybe, That Might Not Be Possible, An Absolutely Just Society, But There Are Plenty Of Spaces And Places Where It's Worth Putting Up A Fight.