Sleep is uncanny, I have always found it so, a nightly dress-rehearsal for being dead.

Doing what you do well is death. Your duty is to keep trying to do things that you don't do well, in the hope of learning.

I read Nietzsche when I was a teenager and then I went back to reading him when I was in my thirties, and his voice spoke directly to me. Nietzsche is such a superb literary artist.

I think I'm less the writer than I'm the written.

I am the worst judge of my books.

We think we're living in the present, but we're really living in the past.

Everything we do is tinged with the knowledge that this may be the last time that we will do this, and that makes what we're doing incredibly sweet.