I know this sounds strange, but as a kid, I was really shy. Painfully shy. The turning point was freshman year, when I was the biggest geek alive. No one, I mean no one, even talked to me.
“Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.”
“I was a fighter and very determined. There was no way I was going to back out without winning.”