I don't even know - for me, it's difficult to decide which is more important - the things or the thoughts. It seems to me that certain things came up more or less naturally.

I don't read novels that are looking to convince me of anything. I believe that literature needs to be a machine of illusions.

At one point I felt a tension between objects, their real, physical lives, and the idea of meaning: the physical, material reality of a book, and the totally intangible experience of reading it.

Genuine faith will produce genuine changes in your life.

You were the only one who looked at me and didn't see her

It's the nature of the beast within us to keep going back to the familiar rather than to strap on faith and face the future.

Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.

I do not fight with the world but the world fights with me.

To wonder is to begin to understand.

Like my mother said, you can't go back to holding hands

Once upon a time, a girl lived in a sandcastle, making monsters to send through a hole in the sky.

I love black because it affirms, designs and styles. A woman in a black dress is a pencil stroke.