Old Folks Are The Nation.

Words Are To Be Taken Seriously. I Try To Take Seriously Acts Of Language. Words Set Things In Motion. I've Seen Them Doing It. Words Set Up Atmospheres, Electrical Fields, Charges.

Not All Speed Is Movement.

People Have To Be Given Permission To Write, And They Have To Be Given Space To Breathe And Stumble. They Have To Be Given Time To Develop And To Reveal What They Can Do.

(m)aybe We Too Busy Being Flowers Or Fairies Or Strawberries Instead Of Something Honest And Worthy Of Respect . . . You Know . . . Like Being People.

It's A Dismally Lonely Business, Writing.