It was easy enough to kill yourself in a fit of despair. It was easy enough to play the martyr. It was harder to do nothing. To endure your life. To wait.

I mostly hate organized religion, which I think is a force for the oppression of women and creates warfare.

It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.

A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.

Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.

I don't know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else's erotica that you don't like. People are interested in their own sexuality and they've always reflected it in their art. End of story.

Surviving means being born over and over.