My Advice Is, Do Not Try To

We Are All Naturally Xenophobic.

Wherever We Go We Do Harm, Forgiving Ourselves As Wheels Do Cement For Wearing Each Other Out. We Set This House On Fire, Forgetting That We Live Within. (from "to A Meadowlark," For M.l. Smoker)

Being A Writer Requires An Intoxication With Language.

I Write Novellas Because I Don't Like Loose Sprawling Prose.

I've Never Felt Influenced By Ernest Hemingway Though I Suppose There Is Something Inevitable There.