Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness..

Prowling the meanings of a word, prowling the history of a person, no use expecting a flood of light. Human words have no main switch. But all those ….

We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves..

Poetry - poiesis means a thing made..

Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It’s usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world..

Philosophy - hopeless. Yet it gives me hope..

What is an adjective? Nouns name the world. Verbs activate the names. Adjectives come from somewhere else. The word adjective (epitheton in Greek) is….

The Greek language seems different than other languages. I'm not the only person to think this. Usually, I come up with some kind of dopey metaphor f….

Give me a world, you have taken the world I was..

Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women..

There is something about the way that Greek poets, say Aeschylus, use metaphor that really attracts me. I don't think I can imitate it, but there's a….

Those nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am..

Novels institutionalize the ruse of eros. It becomes a narrative texture of sustained incongruence, emotional and cognitive. It permits the reader to….

Beauty spins and the mind moves. To catch beauty would be to understand how that impertinent stability in vertigo is possible. But no, delight need n….

You can get used to eating breakfast with a man in a fedora. You can get used to anything, my mother was in the habit of saying..

When I began to be published, people got the idea that I should 'teach writing,' which I have no idea how to do and don't really believe in..

I started to learn Greek when I was in high school, the last year of high school, by accident, because my teacher knew Greek and she offered to teach….

Consider incompleteness as a verb..

I emphasize the distinction between brackets and no brackets because it will affect your reading experience, if you will allow it. Brackets are excit….

Small, red, and upright he waited, gripping his new bookbag tight in one hand and touching a lucky penny inside his coat pocket with the other, while….

Under the seams runs the pain..