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“It’s so unfair being accused of doing something you didn’t do.”

The talk was heady, but the conversations were dead-ends.

My first girl, only sixteen year and she go, she run away to you.

What can be done to interest a younger audience in fiction?

We lived below the poverty level. I wasn’t allowed to desire objects.

Revision is not a sanction to get the head and the will involved.

The main thing a poet tries to do, above all things, is to write a poem.

In the best fiction, there exists a palpable sense of discovery.

The best writers talk a story the way they put it down on the page.

You decide that in this city all things are possible, even happiness.

Be honest. Writing is about honesty, and articulating that honesty.

Be honest. Writing is about honesty, and articulating that honesty.

Robin Troy

That’s how a lifetime passes, closing the wound, a million stitches.

I take a sip of Turkish coffee and wrinkle my nose, like a baby.

For Henry Moore there is not only the best day but the worst.

Don’t worry baby, that’s just the way things be sometimes.

It’s hard to save your own life, to take such extreme measures alone.

She was so beautiful and sweet to us. I remember she laughed a lot.

she had big eyes, the better to see right through a person.

Abe shot himself, first year out of high school. Assholes said he was queer.

“A book is an ax,” Franz Kafka once said, “for the frozen sea within.”

“Leaving for war, Hayes wept. He didn’t just cry; he wept...”

I felt that Teddy occupied a range below acceptability, even among boys.

I’m the astronomer unable to lower his telescope, or look away.

I began to look for evidence of my father’s duplicity in his body.

Live Dangerously! If you get hurt, the suffering will bring a new being.

A goddam mean big sonofabitch boar rooted me in the stomach.

Each evening spent guessing which hemisphere the moon might wreck.