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Writing and the hope of writing pulls me back from the edges of despair. I believe insanity and despair are at times one and the same.

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Writing is my passion. It is a way to experience the ecstatic. The root understanding of the word ecstasy— to stand outside —comes to me in those moments when I am immersed so deeply in the act of thinking and writing that everything else, even flesh, falls away.

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A distinction must be made between that writing which enables us to hold on to life even as we are clinging to old hurts and wounds and that writing which offers to us a space where we are able to confront reality in such a way that we live more fully. Such writing is not an anchor that we mistakenly cling to so as not to drown. It is writing that truly rescues, that enables us to reach the shore, to recover.

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Writing and performing should deepen the meaning of words, should illuminate, transfix and transform.

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