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

Then I saw her smile so close to my eye that there was nothing to see but the smile and the thought came into my head that I’d never been inside a smile before. Who’d have thought being inside a smile would be so ancient and so modern both at once

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

It is important to know the stories and histories of things, even if all we know is that we don't know.

I want to be bored. But I can't. But I really don't want to be this thing that I'm having to be instead of being bored.

Even things which seem separate and finished are infinitely connected and will infinitely connect. This connection happens as soon as you let it, as soon as you engage - as soon as you even attempt to engage.

I had a job, I got ill, I left the job to get better, and while I was getting better, I wrote some stories. I sent them to some publishers and the fifth one who replied said they'd take them. Then they went bankrupt. Then that bankrupt publisher got bought by a bigger firm. Story: in the end is the beginning, and in the beginning is the end.