I Fell Into Shame Like A Suicide

I Don't Believe That There Is Any True Friendship Without A Bond Of Honor, And The Honor In Friendship Is The Respect You Give The Other That She Also Gives You.

Why Write Stories? To Join The Conversation.

... Survival Is The Least Of My Desires.

I Did Not Begin With Craft, I Began With Strong Feelings And Worked Toward Craft.

It Has Seemed To Me That Literature, As I Meant It, Was Embattled, That It Was Increasingly Difficult To Find Writing Doing What I Thought Literature Should Do - Which Was Simply To Push People Into Changing Their Ideas About The World, And To Go Further, To Encourage Us In The Work Of Changing The World, To Making It More Just And More Truly Human.