We love because it's the only true adventure. I resent people who say writers write from experience. Writers don't write from experience, though many are hesitant to admit that they don't. I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems.
Writers write from empathy.
If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else. A white face goes with a white mind. Occasionally a black face goes with a white mind. Very seldom a white face will have a black mind. Art is not for the cultivated taste.