I really love to set things in places that are real to me.

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!

Be uniquely you. Stand out. Shine. Be colorful. The world needs your prismatic soul!

The masses who complain about bad leadership must first check their unbiased choices.

The weight of absence is as much a feature of any library as the constriction of order and space.

If you talk about sous-vide, then you have to talk about food safety, and microbiology, and heat.

To unmask the deceit of every instinct for preservation is to procure salvation for humanity in nothingness.. ..Nothingness must be defined as the absense of all willing.

For all we take we must pay, but the price is cruel high.

Please nothing, she’s a vicious piranha. She looks all cute and cuddly, then she opens that mouth and lets loose so much venom she could double as a nest of scorpions. (Leo)

Intelligence. Nothing has caused the human race so much trouble as intelligence.

Equal means getting the same thing, at the same time and in the same place.

But what is criticism? Criticism is purely destructive; anyone can destroy, but not everyone can build up.