I'm a discursive thinker, so quotation has played an active role in the structure and content of my books from the beginning.

Love is an active construction, and choice, not just an encounter that happens by chance.

True lovers are as rare as true rebels.

I am as much what I am because of what I still don't have as I am because of what I have had and what I might still have one day.

Quotes are like prompts. A way of searching, connecting the dots.

Quotes are a way of acting out not just a text, and not just thinking, but the making of a text. The construction of thinking.

Thinking through quotes, which to say scouring a range of texts for insight, is one way to outline the process of thinking/feeling through a subject.

The digital age is for me in many ways about temporal wounding. It's really messed up our ontological clocks.

One of the liberating things about having a blog is the total vision it allows.

Love has been the ontological pattern for me. And also the withholding pattern.

At any moment I could give up, but I haven't because love for me is an indispensable structure for being.

A true love story has always been about the journey, not the ending.

Because of my faith and my imagination, I was able to enjoy my childhood, even though it was tough.

I'm a strict materialist - but the police are brutal materialists.

When I speak to students and they ask how much money you can make in art, as if that is a reason to persue it, I tell them to do something else.

Wherefore me behoveth needs to grant that all-thing that is done, it is well-done: for our Lord God doeth all.

One's sanctions for truth and goodness are established largely by individual preferences.

With some people, that love of music is just buried in them. It's so deep in them that they would play for free because they have to.

Throwing away food is like stealing from the table of those who are poor and hungry.

We are all aware that corruption is pervasive. It operates at every level. The poor may carry its greatest burden, but it is an affliction that every Indian is desperate to be rid of.

Yes,yes I did. I told them to come in and make themselves at home and while they were at it, to immobilize me and stab me straight through the heart 'cause I'm just that effing bored." (Sam)