A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
Fiction is a sort of inter-human magic, allowing you to travel into a scene and feel it tingle on your skin.
Poetry feels like a country I visit without a passport, where I look around furtively, grab hold of something precious, and try to smuggle it back across the border. Any poem I get written down feels like contraband to me.
It's what you do that makes your soul.
the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners
Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?
When I look out the window, I exhale a prayer of thanks for the color green, for my children's safety, for the simple acts of faith like planting a garden that helped see us through another spring, another summer. And I inhale some kind of promise to protect my kids' hopes and good intentions we began with in this country. Freedom of speech, the protection of diversity - these are the most important ingredients of American civil life and my own survival. If I ever took them for granted, I don't know.
It is possible to live well with dementia and write best-sellers 'like wot I do.
A child's work is to create the person shehe will become.
If New York is the Big Apple, tonight Hollywood is the Big Nipple.
This place has a one, two knockout punch.