All Writers, Musicians, Artists, Choreographers/dancers, Etc., Work

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.

For People Sometimes Believed That It Was Safer To Live With Complaints, Was Necessary To Cooperate With Grief, Was All Right To Become An Accomplice In Self-ambush... Take Heart To Flat Out Decide To Be Well And Stride Into The Future Sane And Whole.

It's A Dismally Lonely Business, Writing.

I've Never Been Convinced That Experience Is Linear, Circular, Or Even Random. It Just Is. I Try To Put It In Some Kind Of Order To Extract Meaning From It, To Bring Meaning To It.

Reappraise The Past, Re-evaluate Where We've Been, Clarify Where We Are, And Predict Or Anticipate Where We Are Headed. . . .