When a woman gives birth her waters break and she pours out the child and the child runs free.

We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then. If we make anything that lasts, it outlives us, and it outlives its personal moment. All of my work is deep-dug from me, and every book has to stand or fall without me.

Nobody knows anything about Shakespeare the person. It's all legend, it is all rumor.

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

Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently.

The continuous narrative of existence is a lie. There is no continuous narrative, there are lit-up moments, and the rest is dark.

Everything is imprinted for ever with what it once was.