What can i tell you about the choices we make? Fate reads like the polar opposite of decision, and so much of life reads like fate.

I think heterosexuality and homosexuality are a kind of psychosis, and the truth is somewhere in the middle.

When I fell in love it was as though I looked into a mirror for the first time and saw myself.

If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you.

Sometimes we forget that if we do not encourage new work now, we will lose all touch with the work of the past we claim to love. If art is not living in a continuous present, it is living in a museum, only those working now can complete the circuit between the past, present and future energies we call art.

To kiss well one must kiss solely. No groping hands or stammering hearts. The lips and the lips alone are the pleasure. Passion is sweeter split strand by strand. Divided and re-divided like mercury then gathered up only at the last moment.

Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it.