I get drunk writing words. I don't drink or do drugs, but I get so carried away with writing that I get inebriated from it.

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• John Shirley:

  Labels only confuse people. The smarter people recognize artists who transcend categories. But I al

• John Shirley:

  Innocence could be considered a discrete state of mind.

• John Shirley:

  I'm cursed with empathy. I'm also by nature way too opinionated.

• John Shirley:

  I think paranoia can be instructive in the right doses. Paranoia is a skill.

• John Shirley:

  I'm trying to trick people into thinking about the unthinkable by using pop culture images.

• John Shirley:

  I'm incapable of writing without social commentary. I like to think that it's integrated and not re

• John Shirley:

  People in extreme conditions are suddenly naked, realer than normal, perhaps even more alive.

• John Shirley:

  I'm not quite pompous enough to think of myself as an educator or a man capable of definitive refut

• John Shirley:

  I do try to be of some use in the world. I sometimes do volunteer work with kids, and manage to hel

• John Shirley:

  I do sometimes watch 'Dr. Who' and while the stories barely make sense, if at all, the doctor is su