Whatever Solidarity I Have Established With Other

One Builds One's Life In Consistency; One Invests It With The Belief, However Unsupported By Reality, That One Has Always Been What One Is Now, That Even In One's Distant Past One Could Recognize The Seed From Which This Doomed Flower Has Bloomed.

I Dont Make Notes For Myself Because I Either Lose Them Or They Make No Sense To Me At All. I Once Found A Piece Of Paper With The Note: Everything. Apparently I Made A Note To Myself Not To Forget Everything!

I Read Everything I Could Find In English - Twain, Henry James, Hemingway, Really Everything. And Then After A While I Started Writing Shorter Pieces In English, And One Of Them Got Published In A Literary Magazine And That's How It Got Started. After That, Graduate School Didn't Seem Very Important.

I Write And Read With The Assumption That Literature Contains Knowledge Of Human Experience That Is Not Available Otherwise.

I Gradually Became Aware That My Interiority Was Inseparable From My Exteriority, That The Geography Of My City Was The Geography Of My Soul.