You can see a person's whole life in the cancer they get.

What gave money its true meaning was its dark-night namelessness, its breathtaking interchangeability.

That's what we all do: endlessly take the long way around.

I think most people live in fiction...That's how you keep your fragile body intact.

This is the extent of his knowledge of the sea: it was very big, it was salty, and fish lived there.

When I am writing, I do not distinguish between the natural and supernatural. Everything seems real. That is my world, you could say.

Problem is, once I sit at my desk and put all these down on paper. I realize something vital is missing. It doesn't crystallize - no crystals, just pebbles. And I'm not transported anywhere.