I take the subway four times a day, or close to it. I just love the subway! My grandfather worked as an electrician when they were digging the subway.
My first book, 'The Age of Wire and String,' came out in 1995, and it was hardly reviewed at all.
Spelling is a way to make words safe, at least for now, until another technology appears to soften attacks launched from the mouth.
It amazes me that parents are allowed to raise kids. There's so much power and often very little accountability.
Eventually you stop paying attention to your own feelings when there's nothing to be done about them.
I always, at least back then, struggled with emotion in writing. I felt like I could do odd, unusual things, but there wouldn't be enough feeling in them, and maybe if there's a progression at all to anything that I've done it's that I've always wanted to have a high - an almost overwhelming - degree of feeling in what I write.
Rain is used as white noise when God is disgusted by too much prayer, when the sky is stuffed to bursting with the noise of what people need.
When your body says 'no,' it doesn't matter how big your heart is.
You keep running after the love of the people, but you’ll never get it. And what you do get, will never be enough. The hole inside you is too big. You see, it was made by God, for God. How could anything less fill it?
Justification and regeneration are simultaneous. The pardoned sinner becomes a child of God in justification.
If I only get to play Malaysian roles, there wouldn't be very many roles for me to play.