I marched and I protested against the war in Vietnam, along with many, many thousands of others. But I never quite understood the bombs that were placed in science labs or office buildings.

She became confused when she stepped onto an escalator that wasn't working.

Sometimes I see something so moving I know I’m not supposed to linger. See it and leave. If you stay too long, you wear out the wordless shock. Love it and trust it and leave.

Your brain has a trillion neurons and every neuron has ten thousand little dendrites. The system of inter-communication is awe-inspiring.

It was only when I found myself writing things I didn't realise I knew that I said, 'I'm a writer now.'

What you see is not what we see. What you see is distracted by memory, by being who you are, all this time, for all these years.

I hate my life. I'm at the point where I want to hear about other people's lives. it's like switching from fiction to biography.