What do prisoners do? Write, of course; even if they have to use blood as ink, as the Marquis de Sade did. The reasons they write, the exquisitely fr….

The mania is like wasps under the skin, like my head's going to explode with ideas..

Neurology and psychiatry should be treating the same organ..

Several factors besides skill are more significant in professional writers than in most amateurs. One is love of the surface level of language: the s….

It's no fun feeling your thoughts are being controlled by an electrode, and someone else is holding the clicker..

A creative idea will be defined simply as one that is both novel and useful or influential in a particular social setting..

How could poetry and literature have arisen from something as plebian as the cuneiform equivalent of grocery-store bar codes? I prefer the version in….

What made me empathic was my depressions..