Instead of singing in the shower, I would write out the lyrics of my favourite songs, the ink would turn the water blue or red or green, and the music would run down my legs.

But what she was really trying to say was this: I like music better than anything in the world, after you.

If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand...... But until we find this new way of speaking, until we can find a nonapproximate vocabulary, nonsense words are the best thing we've got. Ifactifice is one such word.

I wanted to touch him, to tell him that even if everyone left everyone, I would never leave him, he talked and talked, his words fell through him, trying to find the floor to his sadness.

I see myself as someone who makes things. Definitions have never done anything but constrain.

Please be truthful, but also please be benevolent, please.

Feeding my children is not like feeding myself: it matters more.