There’s nothing wrong with not looking like something. It just means you don’t fit the stereotype yet.

A poet might die at twenty-one, a revolutionary or a rock star at twenty four. But after that you assume everything’s going to be all right. you’ve made it past Dead Man’s Curve and you’re out of the tunnel, cruising straight for your destination down a six lane highway whether you want it or not.

Memory is like fiction; or else it's fiction that's like memory. This really came home to me once I started writing fiction, that memory seemd a kind of fiction, or vice versa. Either way, no matter how hard you try to put everything neatly into shape, the context wanders this way and that, until finally the context isn't even there anymore... Warm with life, hopeless unstable.

When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.

Sometimes we don't need words. Rather, it's words that need us.

You know what it’s like when you’re trying to fall asleep and it only makes you more wide awake?

People with dark souls have nothing but dark dreams. People with really dark souls do nothing but dream.