At all crucial moments in our lives we want to speak without knowing what to say.

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

I never change, I simply become more myself.

How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

We wonder why we get credits only to be indebted

Why are you alive? To discover joy and to share that joy with others.

Be fearless. Write what you want. Write how you want. Create art.

Music gives life to the soul.

Where your attention goes, your time goes

I love the fact publishers are still publishing unprofitable material. It's a challenge to the powers that be. It's saying there is a real literature in this country and we will keep publishing it.

Art... can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations.

Time will tell us what we did and didn't do.

It is a significant symbol that street art is gaining increased attention and credibility in the art world and that's a good thing.

The overlap in the Venn diagram of things that men hate for women to wear and the things that I love to wear, it's almost a full overlap on the Venn diagram, which is unfortunate for me.