And the people in Los Angeles, for example, are falling further and further in despair. They live in a place that, ultimately, is a dead space. And that place comes to be the center of their lives. It is a horrible thing to have to wake up to that despair and have it deepen every day. I want my writings to bridge all of this and make people examine their own lives and the lives of others.
Simile appears as a weapon used to attack the senses of the reader.
Language is the most powerful gift given to us. If you have a strain of madness in you, in a very sublime and benevolent way, as I think I do, I thoroughly and blindly believe that simile and metaphor can pierce steel. I really believe that. I believe that the energy that goes into a metaphor or simile coagulates from all the cosmic debris. I believe that when all of this is concentrated, it is more powerful than steel.