Books mean all possibilities. They mean moving out of yourself, losing yourself, dying of thirst and living to your full. They mean everything.

To be known so well by someone is an unimaginable gift. But to be imagined so well by someone is even better.

remember you must live. remember you most love. remainder you mist leaf.

Every great narrative is at least two narratives, if not more - the thing that is on the surface and then the things underneath which are invisible.

A game one of my sisters will play with me in my first year of being alive is called Good Baby, Bad Baby. This consists of being told I am a good baby until I smile and laugh, then being told I am a bad baby until I burst into tears. This training will stand me in good stead all through my life.

Do you come to art to be comforted, or do you come to art to be re-skinned?

There is a kind of poetry, bad and good, in evrything, everywhere we look.