We're taught to expect unconditional love from our parents, but I think it is more the gift our children give us. It's they who love us helplessly, no matter what or who we are.

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

I've always been interested in the intersection between our rational and our unconscious lives.

Scars are stories, history written on the body

There aren't many people in our history who have so completely surrendered themselves to a mission that they would give up their lives for it.

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.