Like Every Writer, I'm Drawn

Once You're Labeled As Mentally Ill, And That's In Your Medical Notes, Then Anything You Say Can Be Discounted As An Artefact Of Your Mental Illness.

Over The City Lies The Sweet, Rotting Odor Of Yesterday's Unrecollected Sins.

There's A Feeling Of Power In Reserve, A Power That Drives Right Through The Bone, Like The Shiver You Sense In The Shaft Of An Axe When You Take It Into Your Hand. You Can Strike, Or You Can Not Strike, And If You Choose To Hold Back The Blow, You Can Still Feel Inside You The Resonance Of The Omitted Thing.

Memory Isn't A Theme; It's Part Of The Human Condition.

When I Began To Read As An Adult, I Read Almost Exclusively Novelists Of A Generation Back. I Did The Russians, Then I Started Getting More Up To Date. When You Become Published And Become A Reviewer, Piles Of Books Come Along And You Are Pushed By Fashion And What You Are Commissioned To Do.