Everything I write, I believe instinctively, is to some extent collage. Meaning, ultimately, is a matter of adjacent data.

Anything processed by memory is fiction.

My medium is prose, not the novel.

I don’t know what’s the matter with me, why I’m so adept at distance, why I feel so remote from things, why life feels like a rumor.

A book should either allow us to escape existence or teach us how to endure it.

To me, the moment you're talking about nonfiction you're talking about reality.

If I'm reading a book and it seems truly interesting, I tend to start reading back to front in order not to be too deeply under the sway of progress.

Momentum, in literary mosaic, derives not from narrative but from the subtle, progressive buildup of thematic resonances.

The absence of plot leaves the reader room to think about other things.

Resolution and conclusion are inherent in a plot-driven narrative.

I take literature as a really serious human activity. It's not just a playful thing. It can be hilarious and wonderful and performative, but I think it's really serious.

Keep trying

Do you believe in magic?" she asked. "I believe in you, " he said. "And you're the closest thing to magic that I've found.

Stick it up your crack, you warped son of a mutant b*tch!

Poetry is very similar to music, only less notes and more words.

If lyrics make people do things, how come we don't love each other?

Babies aren't really born of their parents. They are born of every kind word, loving gesture, hope, and dream their parents ever had.

My art is for anybody, it's for people who wouldn't go into an art gallery. It's art for the people.

The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them.

Life isn't that simple. Everybody has a dual potential to do good and bad and you're capable of doing both. But as to whether someone is beyond redemption, they're dangerous.

Let us then try what Love will do: For if Men do once see we love them, we should soon find they would not harm us.