something made

To represent something in a book or a film, accurately, you have to distort it and craft it. Anything absolutely authentic would be unbelievable. 

moodible

The reason you have two ears is so that you can listen to two things at once. If you're just listening to one video or podcast at a time, you're missing out. 

out of body

I was listening to Ethel Caine when my dog attacked. I said, 'Don't sink in me with your dog teeth'. 

freedom and bondage

We long for freedom, but we think that freedom is about doing what you want, when actually it's as much about doing what you don't want than it is about doing what you want. 

When you just do what you want and only that, you aren't free, you're a slave to your desires. 

a kind of selflessness

I'm reading my way through all of Patrick White's novels and short story collections. I finished The Vivisector, which I've actually read before, and today I started on A Fringe of Leaves. At first I felt like it was OK, but then, once it got going with the main story, it was like - yes, this is good stuff...this is great literature. 

There's that unmistakable thing. Is it always the same thing? It feels like it in a way. It's a kind of vividness and immediacy. It's a kind of flow, where you cease to be aware that you're reading a book, and you experience the story. 

signs and portents

Being able to be interested in things seems like such a small matter. It's a low bar. But to me it's huge, because depression takes that from you, so to be able to hold that interest is a precious gift. 

human

The ability I have to create in writing and in art, brings me life even in the midst of darkness.