The term 'Pre-Raphaelite' is in danger of becoming one of the most misused tags in art history
I love the way dates in a text make us think that truth will follow.
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.
It wasn't until school that we realised that we were abnormal.
Rwanda was considered a second-class operation because it was a small country, we had been able to maintain a kind of status quo. They were negotiating, they'd accepted the new peace project, so we were under the impression that everything would be solved easily.
During the patriarchal time, the men were always and invariably dominant, legally and socially in marriage, so now it's possible to remodel the entire house of marriage, put in new footings and new joists and a new sort of interior. That is exactly what some men and women are now doing.
My mom was the poster girl for the Marines. So she was in the poster saying, "I want you. " My parents were both Marines.