To avoid discovery I stay on the run. To discover things for myself, I stay on the run.

When a woman gives birth her waters break and she pours out the child and the child runs free.

The continuous narrative of existence is a lie. There is no continuous narrative, there are lit-up moments, and the rest is dark.

We're here, there, not here, not there, swirling like specks of dust, claiming for ourselves the rights of the universe. Being important, being nothing, being caught in lives of our own making that we never wanted. Breaking out, trying again, wondering why the past comes with us, wondering how to talk about the past at all.

I had huge ambition for literature. I don't see the point of doing anything if you don't have ambition for it.

To me, life, for all its privations, is a luminous thing. You have to risk it.

I write about sex because often it feels like the most important thing in the world.