When I began to be published, people got the idea that I should 'teach writing,' which I have no idea how to do and don't really believe in.

Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.

Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.

They were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics.

Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.

We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.

Eros is an issue of boundaries. He exists because certain boundaries do. In the interval between reach and grasp, between glance and counterglance, between ‘I love you’ and ‘I love you too,’ the absent presence of desire comes alive. But the boundaries of time and glance and I love you are only aftershocks of the main, inevitable boundary that creates Eros: the boundary of flesh and self between you and me. And it is only, suddenly, at the moment when I would dissolve that boundary, I realize I never can.