John Barton

You can never step into the same book twice, because you are different each time you read it.

A literary journal is intended to connect writer with reader; the role of the editor is to mediate.

The experiment of the poem is mostly intuitive. I write the first draft, pulling in the various elements that interest me, in the hope that their being combined will lead to some kind of insight.

Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.

To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry, they are likely to be wrong.

I'm interested in the psychological exploration of human nature, and it just happens to come in the form of film-making.