I need inspiration to write well, but it’s up to me to create the conditions and environment to be inspired.

Look at that weird woman in the ballerina costume carving life-size elves while a parrot sits on her shoulder.

Weirdness is a central organizing feature to my existence; it shapes what I read, watch, look at, listen to, think about, and talk about...

How someone could be so desperate for their loved one to come back to them that they would take them in any shape...