I have a quiet and an artistic side that many people don't know of.
God, I hate my family, these people I never chose to love, but love all the same.
If you try to control it too much, the book is dead. You have to let it fall apart quite early on and let it start doing its own thing. And that takes nerve, not to panic that the book you were going to write is not the book you will have at the end of the day.
I am interested in silences
We have lost the art of public tenderness, these small gestures of wiping and washing; we have forgotten how abjectly the body welcomes a formal touch.
Cats, I always think, only jump into your lap to check if you are cold enough, yet, to eat.
I do not think we remember our family in any real sense. We live in them instead
Archaeological materials are not mute. They speak their own language. And they need to be used for the great source they are to help unravel the spirituality of those of our ancestors who predate the Indo-Europeans by many thousands of years.
I quit because I didnt feel like the Detroit Lions had a chance to win. It just killed my enjoyment of the game.
We are on a journey of becoming that which we already are. That is the impossible paradox of our lives.
If I were a supervillain, I would end capitalism, racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia. . . but I guess that's a little too obvious and not villain-y enough. Because that's actually being a superhero. I would break down poverty with my machete; I would end world hunger.