It was impossible to believe that someone did not want to be saved from their incoherence.

Be sure to enjoy language, experiment with ways of talking, be exuberant even when you don't feel like it because language can make your world a better place to live.

To become a WRITER I had to learn to INTERRUPT, to speak up, to speak a little louder, and then LOUDER, and then to just speak in my own voice which is NOT LOUD AT ALL.

When happiness is happening it feels as if nothing else happened before it, it is a sensation that happens only in the present tense.

Life is only worth living because we hope it will get better and we'll all get home safely. But you tried and you did not get home safely. You did not get home at all.

She was not a poet. She was a poem.

In the new quiet I heard the sea as if my ears were laid against the ocean floor. I could hear everything. The rumbling earthquake of a ship and spider crabs moving between weeds.

Life is only worth living because we hope it will get better and we'll all get home safely.

She had no God to plead to for mercy or luck. It would be true to say she depended instead on human kindness and painkillers.

... to be forceful was not the same as being powerful and to be gentle was not the same as being fragile...

Afterwards, I will have to tie the trees to bamboo poles so the wind will not determine their shape. A tree cannot be given form by the vagaries of the wind.

We aren't cool and never will be.

Memory narrativises itself.

You suffer as an actor. It's difficult to be an actor and live a good life, especially today.

Everytime i have turned the page he re-enters my life as awkward as postscript

And of course I like Berlin a lot. It's such an interesting city

My readers think that I write for the day because my writings are based on the day. So I shall have to wait until my writings are obsolete. Then they may acquire timeliness.

I get up early and open my emails, write cheques and answer the phone; whatever needs to be done.

I'm not sure about my design work every time.

My doctors told me this morning my blood pressure is down so low that I can start reading the newspapers.