Written on the body is a secret code only visible in certain lights; the accumulations of a lifetime gather there

We're living in a homogenized culture where everything is the same, and books are not a homogenized culture. They are extremely varied, and they're eccentric because they are the product of an individual mind. They are not, in any way, mediated.

I didn’t want to tell the story of myself, but someone I called myself. If you read yourself as fiction, it’s rather more liberating than reading yourself as fact.

...there are two kinds of writing: the one you write and the one that writes you.

I am much better at saying how I feel when I no longer feel it.

I dreamed I was a single moment in a single day. A note struck and vanished. A sounding. A reckoning. Gone.

I want to get to the end and feel that I've done all I could, given the limitations and given the opportunities.