I am good at walking away. Rejection teaches you how to reject.

There’s no story that’s the start of itself.

I go on writing so that I will always have something to read.

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

I spin worlds where we could be together. I dream you. For me, imagination and desire are very close.

Written on the body is a secret code only visible in certain lights: the accumulations of a lifetime gather there. In places the palimpsest is so heavily worked that the letters feel like Braille. I like to keep my body rolled up away from prying eyes, never unfold too much, or tell the whole story. I didn't know that Louise would have reading hands. She has translated me into her own book.

The impulse to worship is impossible to eradicate. Even the most prosaic have to worship something.