"Conversation is when you don’t know what the next thing the person you are with is going to say." – John Cage

“A political art, let it be / tenderness,” - Amiri Baraka, Short Speech to My Friends

“I went through a period once when I felt like I was dying. I wasn’t writing any poetry, and I felt that if I couldn’t write I would split. I was recording in my journal, but no poems came. I know now that this period was a transition in my life.”

You can of course find it here:

"A funny thing about novels though: Often, the more convinced they are, the more they fail to convince." - Chelsea Leu

“the impossibility of ever knowing where someone else is at of the weird doubt you sometimes feel upon reflection where you wonder if you ever really knew someone at all.” – Jackie Wang, Alien Daughters Walk Into the Sun

"Our brand of fear is caused by that which we are told we do not have and can never have and by our inability to make distinction between not having now and not possibly ever having." - Rachel Levitsky, The Story of My Accident is Ours

RT @nighthours_ak: fascinating choice to not include the full context of these lyrics, which is this: They're lining up to prisoners And t…

I struggled with some demons / They were middle class and tame" - Leonard Cohen, You Want It Darker

"So I started writing a novel about an artist who tries to sell out. Then I realized it was a mistake to drop the novel I was already writing, when I was in the middle of it (and it had been going well.)"

"I assumed that everything would lead to complete failure, but I decided that didn't matter – that would be my life." - Jasper Johns

Excerpt from the final chapter of Polyamorous Love Song:

"The crisis is of what to do when one's long habit of doing the work of being oneself no longer works..." - Lauren Berlant

“Kendrick just opened his mouth Someone go hand him a Grammy right now” - Drake, Family Matters

To be vigilant with yourself without beating yourself up.

My book got some really nice reviews:

“My favorite genre of literature is gossip. My second favorite is prayer. But sometimes those are one and the same.” – Aurora Mattia, The Fifth Wound

"Literature – even though people usually study it author by author – is always a dialog amongst many voices which intersect and reply to each other within literature and outside it." - Italo Calvino

"People have to have permission to write, and they have to be given space to breathe and stumble. They have to be given time to develop and to reveal what they can do... There are no soloists after all; this is group improvisation." - Toni Cade Bambara