It's about the connecting force from form to form. It's the toe bone connecting to the shoulder bone. It's the bacterial kick of life force, something growing out of nothing, forming itself out of something else. Form never stops. And form is always environmental.

Nothing is harmful to literature except censorship, and that almost never stops literature going where it wants to go either, because literature has a way of surpassing everything that blocks it and growing stronger for the exercise.

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

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.

I went to the top of Vesuvius and looked in.

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.

Stella Duffy is a writer who never lets you down.