Writing is like washing windows in the sun. With every attempt to perfect clarity, you make a new smear.

You have two kinds of secrets. The ones only you know. The ones only you don't.

Tyranny and fantasy both like to write everyone else's lines.

Nothing important comes with instructions.

Only half of writing is saying what you mean. The other half is preventing people from reading what they expected you to mean.

Writing is like washing windows in the sun. With every attempt to perfect clarity, you make a new smear.

It is the empty seats that listen most raptly.