I used to want to be a backup singer. Not a lead singer, because I really can't sing.

I think life is difficult and that's that. I am not at all - absolutely not at all - interested in the pursuit of happiness. I am not interested in the pursuit of positivity. I am interested in pursuing a truth, and the truth often seems to be not happiness but its opposite.

I've never gotten used to winter and never will.

Someone who knew me well once accused me of being unromantic. And that's probably true: I don't trust romance.

Express everything you like. No word can hurt you. None. No idea can hurt you. Not being able to express an idea or word will hurt you more. Like a bullet.

One's obligation every day, is to choose to follow the nobler one.

For me, writing isn't a way of being public or private; it's just a way of being. The process is always full of pain, but I like that. It's a reality, and I just accept it as something not to be avoided. This is the life I have. This is the life I write about.