In College, You Learn How To Learn.

Music: What So Many Sentences Aspire To Be.

I Stood Willingly And Gladly In The Characters Of Everything - Other People, Trees, Clouds. And This Is What I Learned, That The World's Otherness Is Antidote To Confusion - That Standing Within This Otherness - The Beauty And The Mystery Of The World, Out In The Fields Or Deep Inside Books - Can Re-dignify The Worst-stung Heart.

I Tell You This To Break Your Heart, By Which I Mean Only That It Break Open And Never Close Again To The Rest Of The World.

After A Cruel Childhood, One Must Reinvent Oneself. Then Reimagine The World.

I Read The Way A Person Might Swim, To Save His Or Her Life. I Wrote That Way Too.