Our relationship to the environment matters, our relationship to animals matters, and our relationship to culture matters.

You need to have a reader's sympathy in order to accomplish anything. It's like at a reading, I find it's better to read something funny than to read something tragic. It just goes over better because you have a finite amount of time with somebody. Of course, in a book, you have a lot of time. But you still do want to make a certain impression right when you begin.

We all choose things, and we also all choose against things. I want to be the kind of person who chooses for more than chooses against.

It broke my heart into more pieces than my heart was made of, why can't people say what they mean at the time?

It’s much easier to be cruel than one might think.

We are not long-term beings. Not heroes of romances in many volumes. For one gesture, for one word alone, we shall make the effort. We openly admit: our creations will be temporary. We shall have this as our aim: a gesture.

I wanted so much to have a life. Even just once, even for a second.