"Don't you want to join us?" I was recently asked by an acquaintance when he ran across me alone after midnight in a coffeehouse that was already almost deserted. "No, I don't," I said.

If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.

Kill me, or you are a murderer.

One tells as few lies as possible only by telling as few lies as possible, and not by having the least possible opportunity to do so.

Writing means revealing oneself to excess.

They say ignorance is bliss.... they're wrong

Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.