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“There are very few things that I have any patience for that are not at least a little bit humorous.”

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You can't invent something you have no epistemological access to. In a way, it's all recombination.

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Poetry is another space, like love, where we extend that extra credit to the writer.

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“Dracula visited the Wolf Department at the Zoological Gardens. "These wolves seem upset at something," he observed. The next morning the cage was all…

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I like to think that I know a lot of words, but I definitely don't know all of them.

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People don't become writers because they love having spontaneous, real-world interactions with living people as bodies with clothes in time.

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