I can't work out much about myself or what I see in the world around me unless I do it through writing.

Sometimes there's a sort of tear in the veil, and there are people who live in more than one dimension.

Don’t portray yourself as who you want to be. Portray yourself as who you are.

For me, writing is inseparable from thinking. I could say the entire undertaking is a vast cerebral construct against my demons. It's the thing that I love. It's my identity.

The dizzy rapture of starving. The power of needing nothing. By force of will I make myself the impossible sprite who lives on air, on water, on purity.

My days are as long as despair can make them.

Writing is how I stay sane. It's completely necessary.