I Didn't Want To Be A Boy,

Writing Is Far Too Hard Work To Say What Someone Else Wants Me To. Serving It As A Craft, Using It As A Way Of Growing In My Own Understanding, Seems To Me To Be A Beautiful Way To Live. And If That Product Is Shareable With Other People, So Much The Better.

Charity Is A Cop-out So Traditionally Female In Its Apparent Self-effacement That There Seems Resonant Comfort In It. We're No Longer Supposed To Serve The Imaginations Of Men Who Have Dominated Us. We Are To Give Up Ourselves Instead To Those Whose Suffering Is Greater Than Our Own. Looking Down Is Just As Distorting As Looking Up And As Dangerous In Perpetuating Hierarchies.

Casino Owners Spoke More Loudly Than Any Of The Other Kings Of Industry To Defend Their Contribution To Society. They Could Speak More Loudly Because Theirs Was The Purest Activity Of Civilized Man. They Had Transcended The Need For A Product. They Could Maintain And Advance Life With Machines That Made Nothing But Money.

I Believe Only In Art And Failure.

Conventions, Like Clichés, Have A Way Of Surviving Their Own Usefulness.