Memoir is not an act of history but an act of memory, which is innately corrupt.
Why is it that everybody else is traffic?
What would you write if you weren’t afraid?
Poetry privileges music and is aesthetically more challenging. Prose privileges information and is emotionally more challenging.
If you'd told me even a year before...that I'd wind up whispering my sins in the confessional or on my knees saying the rosary, I would've laughed myself cockeyed. More likely pastime?Pole dancer. Int...
Prose cannot compete with the economy of poetry, the ability to have a full artistic experience in a short period of time.
If dysfunction means that a family doesn't work, then every family ambles into some arena in which that happens, where relationships get strained or even break down entirely. We fail each other or dis...
Joy, it is, which I've never known before, only pleasure or excitement. Joy is a different thing, because its focus exists outside the self-delight in something external, not satisfaction of some inne...
A university is a city of ideas, and we're grateful you became citizens of our city.
But it's a neurological fact that the scared self holds on while the reasoned one lets go.
There are women succeeding beyond their wildest dreams because of their sobriety.
Leechfield Will Grease The Planet!
When the truth would be unbearable the mind often just blanks it out. But some ghost of an event may stay in your head. Then, like the smudge of a bad word quickly wiped off a school blackboard, this...
I see the awakening of consciousness as a series of spaced flashes, with the intervals between them gradually diminishing until bright blocks of perception are formed, affording memory a slippery hold...
At the Sound of the Gunshot, Leave A Message That's what my friend spokeinto his grim machine the winter he first went madas we both did in our thirties with stillno hope of revenue, gravely inkingour...
A pool game mixes ritual with geometry.
When you've been hurt enough as a kid (maybe at any age), it's like you have a trick knee. Most of your life, you can function like an adult, but add in the right portions of sleeplessness and stress...
In some ways, writing a memoir is knocking yourself out with your own fist, if it’s done right.
Later, I'l learn that's the structure of an elegy: lament, consolation; bad news, followed by good news.)
I have a completely addictive personality. Diet Coke is my last - God, I know people counting days off Diet Coke; I'm such a Diet Cokehead. Now I won't let myself buy it.