The fictive is an emormous territory it turns out, its boundaries vague, and there is little certainty about where it begins and ends.

A book is a collaboration between the one who reads and what is read and, at its best, that coming together is a love story like any other.

There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition.

I will turn human anatomy into roses and stars and sea. I will dissect the beloveds body in metaphor.

Correlation is not cause, it is just a 'music of chance'.

Not telling is just as interesting as telling I have found. Why speech, that short verbal journey from inside to outside can be excrutiating under certain circumstances is fascinating.

We chart delusions through collective agreement.

We are all dying one by one. We all smell of mortality, and we can't wash it off.

There is more to joy than looking only for affirmation

Life has its ups and downs. When you are up, enjoy the scenery. When you are down, touch the soul of your being and feel the beauty.

You're rarer than a can of Dandelion & BurdockAnd those other girls are just post-mix lemonade

There is one thing we can do better than anyone else: we can be ourselves.

Give not advice without being asked, and when desired, do it briefly.

I've not got a first in philosophy without being able to muddy things pretty satisfactory.

Freedom to me is a luxury of being able to follow the path of the heart, to keep the magic in your life. Freedom is necessary for me in order to create, and if I cannot create I don’t feel alive.

If there is no wisdom, rationality can be very dangerous.

I just hate sitting and writing - I had to do that in school. Plus, I have terrible handwriting.

If you re-read your work, you can find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re-reading and editing.