But the world did not match the picture in my head, and instead I was with a strange, uncombed person, overlooking a sea without water and a forest without trees.

One has to adopt a sort of Zen calm, in which you know you wrote the best book that you could at the time.

We all know of course, that we should never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever fiddle around in any way with electrical equipment. NEVER.

Miracles can happen, even to those who are small, flammable, and dressed all in black.

I stand entwined in fire on the inextinguishable bonfire of inconceivable love.

...there's not enough ink and paper to say all I wanted.

I found powerful the idea that everything we have is, in effect, stolen from everybody else.