I don’t really want to become normal, average, standard. I want merely to gain in strength, in the courage to live out my life more fully, enjoy more, experience more. I want to develop even more original and more unconventional traits

I am a failure as a writer. The publishers won't publish me, the bookshops won't carry my books, the critics won't write about me. I am excluded from all anthologies, and completely ignored.

The personal, if it is deep enough, becomes universal, mythical, symbolic.

The self is merely the lens through which we see others and the world.

I want to be a writer who reminds others that these moments exist; I want to prove that there is infinite space, infinite meaning, infinite dimension

I'm sick of my own romanticism!

The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body.