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

There's so little wonder left in the world because we've seen everything one way or another'.

Six books… my mother didn’t want books falling into my hands. It never occurred to her that I fell into the books – that I put myself inside them for safe keeping.

I think every work of art is an act of faith, or we wouldn't bother to do it. It is a message in a bottle, a shout in the dark. It's saying, 'I'm here and I believe that you are somewhere and that you will answer if necessary across time, not necessarily in my lifetime.'

I like to look at how people work together when they are put into stressful situations, when life stops being cozy.

To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language.

I cannot assume you will understand me. It is just as likely that as I invent what I want to say, you will invent what you want to hear. Some story we must have. Stray words on crumpled paper. A weak signal into the outer space of each other. The probability of seperate worlds meeting is very small. The lure is immense. We send starships. We fall in love