Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going.

Your dream is a good one. [. . .] The desire that is the very root of life itself: To grow until all the space you can see is part of you, under your control. It's the desire for greatness.

The only people who think children are carefree are the ones who've forgotten their own childhood.

Humans invent an imaginary lover and put that mask over the face of the body in their bed. That is the tragedy of language my friend. Those who know each other only through symbolic representations are forced to imagine each other. And because their imagination is imperfect, they are often wrong.

Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.

Into the the air, into the earth, into the fire, I am with you.

You can’t answer what I said, so you’re going to talk about my saying it.