Those Who Are Driven By Poverty, Those

I'm No Longer A Child And I Still Want To Be, To Live With The Pirates. Because I Want To Live Forever In Wonder. The Difference Between Me As A Child And Me As An Adult Is This And Only This: When I Was A Child, I Longed To Travel Into, To Live In Wonder. Now, I Know, As Much As I Can Know Anything, That To Travel Into Wonder Is To Be Wonder. So It Matters Little Whether I Travel By Plane, By Rowboat, Or By Book. Or, By Dream. I Do Not See, For There Is No I To See. That Is What The Pirates Know. There Is Only Seeing And, In Order To Go To See, One Must Be A Pirate.

Life Doesn't Exist Inside Language: Too Bad For Me.

On The Surface We All Act Like We All Love Each Other And We're Free And Easy, And Actually We're Far More Moralistic Than Any Other Society I've Ever Lived In.

I Understand That When People Read My Books That There's Something There - But I Don't Identify With It.

We Don't Have A Clue What It Is To Be Male Or Female, Or If There Are Intermediate Genders. Male And Female Might Be Fields Which Overlap Into Androgyny Or Different Kinds Of Sexual Desires. But Because We Live In A Western, Patriarchal World, We Have Very Little Chance Of Exploring These Gender Possibilities.