Generally, people who are good at writing letters have no need to write letters. They've got plenty of life to lead inside their own context.

We can, if we so choose, wander aimlessly over the continent of the arbitrary. Rootless as some winged seed blown about on a serendipitous spring breeze.

I’ve never once thought about how I was going to die,” she said. “I can’t think about it. I don’t even know how I’m going to live.

I'll write to you. A super-long letter, like in an old-fashioned novel

I think I'll stay alive here a bit longer, and see with my own eyes what's going to happen. I can still die after that - it won't be too late. Probably.

Narratives have the same power, I think. Some readers of my novels ask me, "Why do you understand me?". That's a huge pleasure of mine because it means that readers and I can make our narratives relative.

The thing I’m most afraid of is me. Of not knowing what I’m going to do. Of not knowing what I’m doing right now