After that dark woman you search for someone who will fit into the irregular corners of your heart.

History is said to be written by the victors. Fiction, by contrast, is largely the work of injured bystanders.

That is the mystery about writing: it comes out of afflictions, out of the gouged times, when the heart is cut open.

Movie people are possessed by demons, but a very low form of demons.

It was the first time that I came face to face with madness and feared it and was fascinated by it.

I am not kind, I cut people off as with shears and I drop them like nettles.

... we have so many voices in us, how do we know which ones to obey?