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

Happy is what you realize you are a fraction of a second before it's too late.

The whole point is, we can forget. It’s important that we forget some things. Otherwise we’d go round the world carrying a hodload of stuff we just don’t need.

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.

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

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

I wouldn't call my work Modernist. I would rust if I try to think about labels. I'd feel like the Tin Man in 'The Wizard of Oz.