Memorialization is not a passive practice but an active conversation.

A transference of memory was occurring as she, the vessel, the source, wrung every small, muffled detail into me, the depository. And once it began, it was difficult to interrupt or stop

Partition memory is particularly pliable. Within it, the act of forgetting, either inevitably or purposefully, seems to play as much a part as remembering itself.

A Baba Yaga never breaks a promise. Legs, yes. Hearts, occasionally. But never a promise.

Guilt's just your ego's way of tricking you into thinking that you're making moral progress. Don't fall for it, my dear.

The union of the mind and intuition which brings about illumination, and the development which the Sufis seek, is based upon love.

My whole life is controversy. What can I do? I'm like Britney Spears!

So one can say that I write all the time, that goes for the lyrics as well.

Telling takes away the need to write. It relieves the pressure. And once that tension dissipates, so does the need to relieve it. First write it, then we’ll talk about it.

Create and preserve the image of your choice.

I was approaching the age of 40 with a substantial publication record, but had not yet held any position in a chemistry department.

In the technical realm, we repeatedly enter into a series of social contracts, the terms of which are revealed only after the signing.

A hundred years from now, people will listen to the music of the Beatles the same way we listen to Mozart.