The water was pure and cold and came out of the Apennines tasting like snow melted in the hands of a pretty girl.

I think I learned about the relationship between books and life from Margaret Mitchell.

I still write in long hand. I type like a chimpanzee.

Writing poetry and reading books causes brain damage.

I learned that if I could read, I could cook. I surprised myself I like it.

I've always found paranoia to be a perfectly defensible position.

I wanted to become the seeker, the aroused and passionate explorer, and it was better to go at it knowing nothing at all, always choosing the unmarked bottle, always choosing your own unproven method, armed with nothing but faith and a belief in astonishment.