“Down on the beach the three children stood unmoving in the late afternoon gloaming, their arms linking them together, watching transfixed while the tall grey man approached them with a steady step. He carried a long pole with what at that distance resembled an old-fashioned lantern at its tip. As he drew close to the trio the lamp brightened, enveloping them in its glow. Then suddenly and silently the light was extinguished, leaving only the grey man standing motionless on the sand.”
Source: Cerberus
“On perception:
Angles in film are as invented as the relationship between objects and space in paintings. In the end, everything is open to debate — and can be reshaped, reframed, reimagined…”
“All of us have to learn how to invent our lives, make them up, imagine them. We need to be taught these skills; we need guides to show us how. Without them, our lives get made up for us by other people.”
Source: Words Are My Matter: Writings About Life and Books, 2000-2016
“The first time I read As I Lay Dying, I was so awed I wanted to give up. I thought, "He's done it, perfectly. Why the hell am I trying?" But the failures of some of his black characters - the lack of imaginative vision regarding them, the way they don't display the full range of human emotion, how they fail to live fully on the page - work against that awe and goad me to write.”
Source: Salvage the Bones
“آنچه که از خیالم میگذرد، مرا از دیدن همهی آنچه که احاطهام کرده است کور میسازد، بیزار میکند.”
“A story is a seed — plant it with love, and it will grow in a child’s heart forever.”
“Inner and outer worlds can never be reconciled by a poet, nor should they be. However, traveling between these two, and trying to express the experience in words, is something I'm grateful to have spent my life doing”
Source: What Solitude Sees in Me: Uncollected Poems 1976-2023
“Imagine a world where humans are completely captive… Over time, people lose their creativity, vitality, and sense of freedom.”
Source: Subversive Acts of Humanity : A Survival Guide for Choosing Evolution over Self-Destruction
“The books a mother reads with her child are bridges between imagination and understanding”
Source: Hope Helps Me Grow: A Story for Kids Ages 3–6 About Staying Positive and Believing in Tomorrow
“Imagine a world without play… Creativity dies, relationships become transactional, and joy disappears.”
Source: Subversive Acts of Humanity : A Survival Guide for Choosing Evolution over Self-Destruction