I’m not club-able, you see. I don’t like literary parties and literary gatherings and literary identities. I’d hate to join anything, however loosely.

Life has never been All or Nothing- it's All and Nothing. Forget the binaries.

Time that withers you will wither me. We will fall like ripe fruit and roll down the grass together. Dear friend, let me lie beside you watching the clouds until the earth covers us and we are gone.

Many people feel their outer self isn't the whole self.

What's invisible to us is also crucial for our own well-being.

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

Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her world.