My father's violence is the central fact of my art and my life.

I loved my parents... but that can never change the fact that my father's violence ruined my childhood.

The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.

Rape is a crime against sleep and memory; it's after image imprints itself like an irreversible negative from the camera obscure of dreams. Though their bodies would heal, their souls had sustained a damage beyond compensation

I mark the reading of 'Look Homeward, Angel' as one of the pivotal events of my life. It starts off with the single greatest, knock-your-socks-off first page I have ever come across in my careful reading of world literature.

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.