Language is magic: it makes things appear and disappear.

To be a poet is to place pleasure, beauty and sensual delights front and centre, it means having a predilection for debauchery.

... if patriarchy can take what exists and make it not, surely we can take what exists and make it be.

Writing is a consciousness formally at work in the territory of the imaginary.

Loving a woman is always political.

I cannot get close to any you.

To write, you must first belong to yourself.

she wanted because art

True friends are those who came into your life, saw the most negative part of you, but are not ready to leave you, no matter how contagious you are to them.

Spoken words have power beyond measure.

(My proudest moment as a child was the time I beat my uncle Pierre at Scrabble with the seven-letter word FARTING.)

My theory is, if you force yourself to smile enough, then you start to feel it. Which comes in handy all the time.

Typography must be as beautiful as a forest, not like the concrete jungle of the tenements It gives distance between the trees, the room to breathe and allow for life.

There are really no serious arguments for communion in the hand. But there are the most gravely serious kinds of arguments against it.

I'm trying to be less bombastic. I love my books. I think I've done things nobody else has done.

When you decide you're going to join a project, it's all about the gift you're giving the audience.

Talent is crucial. It needs to be driven by motivation, but blind ambition isn't the key.

I'm the most indecisive person in the world. I'll do three versions of a song, then think, "Is the demo better?"