Troublesome 96'

“If you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool that God ever turned out and sent rambling. You must write every single day of your life. You must read dreadful dumb books and glorious books, and let them wrestle in beautiful fights inside your head, vulgar one moment, brilliant the next. You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads. I wish you a wrestling match with your Creative Muse that will last a lifetime. I wish craziness and foolishness and madness upon you. May you live with hysteria, and out of it make fine stories — science fiction or otherwise. Which finally means, may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.”

I’d almost rather he just left us. Maybe in another life he just found someone new and I can see him sometimes for basketball games or dinner on Saturdays. Maybe in that life I love what I have and what I have isn’t gone.

“Necesitamos más diosas. Diosas que sepan crear y criar. Que tengan sexo, no vírgenes, que disfruten del placer y conozcan sus cuerpos. Bellas diosas creadoras, que nos den de mamar vida. Que calmen nuestra hambre y sacien nuestra sed. Diosas que amen tanto al hombre como a la mujer, que no hagan diferencias. Diosas que se respeten, que se adoren a sí mismas. Que se sientan hermosas por el solo hecho de ser mujeres. Diosas que brinden amor, y no miedo. Que celebren la felicidad, y no la tristeza. Necesitamos más diosas, porque de dioses ya estamos hartos.”

you don’t change art / it changes you.