I want literature to open all the doors that I can't open by myself, and to allow me to see things that I wouldn't otherwise see.

I'm really interested in what you remember, how you remember, what your perspective is as opposed to somebody else's.

I think those of us who use language are always trying for this, trying to keep everything from floating away by trying to write about it despite failure.

Each of us is present, but partially.

I'm always somehow drawn to that sense of how fragile things are and how a garden means so differently depending upon whose language you happen to be in or whose century you happen to be in.

Even your own memory changes over time because of circumstances or even because your body changes.

I want literature to open all the doors that I can't open by myself, and to allow me to see things that I wouldn't otherwise see.