For madness must be punished in a world in which mere sanity is prized. The revenge of the ordinary upon the gifted.

I want to tell you that I love you I want to tell you that I love you I want to tell you that I love I love I love I love but you do not.

If I try to summon back his face, the sound of his voice, and the sensation in my stomach like a key turning in a lock when he touched me, I lose everything.

There was a Greek philosopher who taught that, of all things, not to have been born is the sweetest state. But I believe sleep is the sweetest state. You're dead, yet alive. There's no sensation so exquisite.

"Politics" per se is absent from my writing but there is usually a moral (if ironic) compass.

At all crucial moments in our lives we want to speak without knowing what to say.

By the way of connecting with subject, with theme, I was able to find a kind of lifeline. Writing's like a lifeline. You have to get the right way in. Otherwise the material just lies there, and you can't do anything with it.