Wholeness Is The Enemy Of The Artist.

A Dream Can Be The Highest Point Of A Life

We Have Fallen Into This Very Mean Description Of Humanity. Naturalism In Fiction Is Too Reductive In Its Definition Of Human Beings.

This Earth That We Live On Is Full Of Stories In The Same Way That, For A Fish, The Ocean Is Full Of Ocean. Some People Say When We Are Born We're Born Into Stories. I Say We're Also Born From Stories.

The Earliest Storytellers Were Magi, Seers, Bards, Griots, Shamans. They Were, It Would Seem, Old As Time, And As Terrifying To Gaze Upon As The Mysteries With Which They Wrestled .. (they) Helped The Community Live Though One More Darkness, With Eyes Wide Open, And With Hearts Set Alight.

Ghetto-dwellers Are The Great Fantasists. There Was An Extraordinary Vibrancy There, An Imaginative Life. When You Are That Poor, All You've Got Left Is Your Belief In The Imagination.