Every believer is an anarchist at heart. True believers would rather see governments topple and history rewritten than scuff the cover of their faith.

My friends and the people who are close to me know what I am. And that is enough.

There are two facts that all children need to disprove sooner or later; mother and father. If you go on believing in the fiction of your own parents, it is difficult to construct any narrative of your own.

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

The world is surely wide enough to walk without fear.

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

Life was a pre-death experience.