...there is a myth called objective reality - we think an impersonal world exists apart from us - it doesn't - it needs us to be ...

...language always occurs in a context - you can speak Elizabethan words, but to speak the language you have to put on the mindset...

...the most beautiful things don't always make you happy - often they make you weep...

...the secret to writing is to get your own pain - shout it out till it hurts your throat - weep it into your pillow - then write it down ...

...writing with ferocity is a gift, provided that ferocity is a monomaniacal devotion to pursuing the truth ...

...the strands that connect us are frail, so don't hang great weights on slender wires...