Each book is a different staging post on the writer's journey, and each book stands by itself, regardless of the writer's relationship to it.

This hole in my heart is in the shape of you. No one else can fit it. Why would I want them to?

Long looking at paintings is equivalent to being dropped into a foreign city, where gradually, out of desire and despair, a few key words, then a little syntax make a clearing in the silence. Art... is a foreign city, and we deceive ourselves when we think it familiar... We have to recognize that the language of art, all art, is not our mother-tongue.

People being encouraged to make up their own minds and think for themselves is so important. This world talks endlessly about freedom of choice, but we've never been [nothing] more than a nation of robots. Everybody is seduced by corporate culture.

It's hard to remember that this day will never come again. That the time is now and the place is here and that there are no second chances at a single moment.

In my subconscious, my books were part of a single emotional journey.

We are told not to privilege one story above another. All the stories must be told. Well, maybe that's true, maybe all stories are worth hearing, but not all stories are worth telling.