What You Are Will Make You What

I Suspect Most Of Life Takes Place In The Interstices Of What's Already Been Articulated.

It's Frightening For One Artist To See Another One, Any Other One Turn Away From Art.

Now For Me, You're The Irreplaceable One: I've Never See You Up So Close Before, And I Do Not Understand You At All. You Say Sometimes I Act Like I Don't See You? I Don't Even Know Where To Look! Living With You Around Is Like Is Like Living With A Permanent Dazzle. The Fact That You Even Like Me, Or Look At Me, Or Brush By Me, Or Hug Me, Or Hold Me, Is So Surprising That After It's Over I Have To Go Back Through It A Dozen Times In My Head To Savor It And Try And Figure Out What It Was Like Because I Was Too Busy Being Astounded While It Was Happening.

From 1968 On, I Was Pretty Much The Black, Gay Sf Writer.

When What Is Is Congruent To What Is Supposed, The Reaction Is Functional And The Mental Processes Competent. When What Is And What Is Supposed Have Nothing To Do With Each Other, The Choice Of Reactions Is Random. Something Tears.