To touch and feel each thing in the world, to know it by sight and by name, and then to know it with your eyes closed so that when something is gone, it can be recognized by the shape of its absence. So that you can continue to possess the lost, because absence is the only constant thing. Because you can get free of everything except the space where things have been.

The book Forest Dark wants to provoke questions about what is reality and why are we so given to believe that reality is firm and unbendable. There's a whole host of questions that the book is asking about that. Why do we believe that the world is only one way and as we see it? Why are we not open to the ways in which it might be otherwise.

The idea that we've outgrown ends up limiting us and we have to make a choice about what we're going to do in our lives.

Life in general in my experience gets deeper and deeper, more and more profound, more and more complex, the older one gets.

When the word 'nostalgia' was coined in the 18th century, it was used to describe a pathology - not so much a sense of lost time, but a severe homesickness.

If it weren't for her, there would never have been an empty space, or the need to fill it.

I'm very interested in structure, how multiple stories are assembled in different ways; that is what memory does as well.