I am a poem, or I am a pattern, or a race of people whose world was swallowed by the sea.

“Songs remain. They last. The right song can turn an emperor into a laughing-sto…”

“You ignore the little voices that tell you it's all stupid, and you keep going.”

“I’m a culture hero,” he said. “We do the same shit gods do, we just screw up mo…”

“If you only write when you’re inspired you may be a fairly decent poet, but you…”