"No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking."

                                                                       -Voltaire

"We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection. We write to be able to transcend our life, to reach beyond it, to teach ourselves to speak with others, to record the journey into the labyrinth, to expand the world, when we feel strangled, constricted lonely. When I don't write I feel my world shrinking. I feel I lose my fire, my color."