Two Or Three Things I Know For

I Did Things I Did Not Understand For Reasons I Could Not Begin To Explain Just To Be In Motion, To Be Trying To Do Something, Change Something In A World I Wanted Desperately To Make Over But Could Not Imagine For Myself.

...i Have Come To Make Distinctions Between What I Call The Academy And Literature, The Moral Equivalents Of Church And God. The Academy May Lie, But Literature Tries To Tell The Truth.

It's Fun To Tease People About Where Fiction And Life Intersect.

I Am The Only One Who Can Tell The Story Of My Life And Say What It Means.

I Did Not Begin With Craft, I Began With Strong Feelings And Worked Toward Craft.