We're living in a homogenized culture where everything is the same, and books are not a homogenized culture. They are extremely varied, and they're eccentric because they are the product of an individual mind. They are not, in any way, mediated.

the buddhists say there are 149 ways to god. i'm not looking for god, only for myself, and that is far more complicated.

There is no discovery without risk and what you risk reveals what you value.

The truth is I am inventing the maybe. I can only make the choices I make, so why torture myself with what I might have done, when all I can handle is what I have done? The Maybe Islands are hostile to human life.

That walls should fall is the consequence of blowing your own trumpet.

I think it would be very foolish not to take the irrational seriously.

When she bleeds the smells I know change colour. There is iron in her soul on those days. She smells like a gun.