Those who see beauty almost too intensely can easily look mad to those who are functioning within the confines of so-called normal life.

You don't know what you need when you're a young writer. You can get small slivers of critical input, advice, comments, but if you're deep in the perplexity of your own process, as you should be, sorting it out in your own way, nothing is going to guide you more than small gestures of encouragement.

America turns its back on the mentally ill. It likes to think it doesn't, but it does.

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