I don't believe in a perfect world. I don't believe it's achievable, and I believe the people who try to achieve it usually end up turning it into something like Cambodia or something very similar because purity tests set in. Are you ideologically pure enough to be allowed to live? Well, it turns out that very few people are, so you end up with a big powerful struggle and a mass killing scene.

Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.

If you really want to stay the same age you are now forever and ever, she'd be thinking, try jumping off the roof: death's a sure-fire method for stopping time.

It's probably a form of childish curiosity that keeps me going as a fiction writer. I ... want to open everybody's bureau drawers and see what they keep in there. I'm nosy.

When they're gone out of his head, these words, they'll be gone, everywhere, forever. As if they had never been.

The facts of this world seen clearly are seen through tears.

To live in prison is to live without mirrors. To live without mirrors is to live without the self.