It’s better to think of my life like that— part miracle, part madness. It’s better if I accept that I can’t control any of the things that matter. My life is a trail of shipwrecks and set-sails. There are no arrivals, no destinations; there are only sandbanks and shipwreck; then another boat, another tide.

I want to be an art-hero - I want to change the form of the novel.

A curse on this game. How can you stick at a game when the rules keep on changing? I shall call myself Alice and play croquet with the flamingos. In Wonderland everyone cheats and love is Wonderland, isn't it?

There is no sense in loving someone you can never wake up to except by chance.

I was the place where you anchored. I was the deep water where you could be weightless. I was the surface where you saw your own reflection. You scooped me up in your hands.

To be ill adjusted to a deranged world is not a breakdown.

The most prosaic of us betray a belief in the inward life every time we talk about 'my body' rather than 'I.