I was motivated to write about violence because I believe it's not unusual. I see it as just a part of life, and I think we get in trouble when we separate people who've experienced it from those who haven't.
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I was motivated to write about violence because I believe it's not unusual. I see it as just a part of life, and I think we get in trouble when we separate people who've experienced it from those who haven't.
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In my 20s, I railed against anything 'spiritual'; I thought it was all crap.
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I'd like to go back to poetry again. I really, really revere good poetry. It's been my private discipline.
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I like gardening - it's a place where I find myself when I need to lose myself.
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I have never been shy about listening to the input of others and weighing it seriously.
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I always had that sense of being censored for the things that I thought. Why is it wrong to embroider your pants, or paint with acrylics on your clothing? Why is that weird? Isn't it weirder to want to be like everyone else?
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I wanted to be the moron of the family, because morons seemed to have more fun, more freedom and more personality.
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I think it's an interesting thing to me, because we have this desire for everything to be explained to us. But if you go through your daily actions, very little ends up having a written-down explanation for why things happen, or why people do specific things.
