I find waiting unbearable because it makes me passive and negates me. I hate being nothing.

I'm very staid compared to my students, actually.

Well, I think writing is basically about time and rhythm. Like with jazz. You have your basic melody and then you just riff off of it. And the riffs are about timing.

All memory can do is scream for touch.

The personal interiorization of the practice of humiliation is called humility.

Pain is the world. I don't have anywhere to run.

There are times when the law jeopardizes those who obey it.