Intellectual labor is a common technique for the avoidance of thinking.

I believe I encountered death, which was a bit too much for a seven-year-old.

To do magic, to do great magic, he has to know himself as a piece of the universe.A piece of the universe?A little piece that has all the rest of it in it. Everything outside of him is also inside of him.

However, I think I managed to reach a new level with Koko, and I will always be grateful for the experience.

Ideally, I would create a book so interdependent and self-sustaining in its parts, so wondrously connected word by word and paragraph by paragraph, so charged with the joy of language, that it would actually float three or four inches above any table where you try to set it down.

I liked the place I came from. But a lot of what I liked about it was that I had come from there.

What would be frightening about me jumping out of the bush wearing a pig mask is not the sudden surprise, not me, and not the pig mask, but that the ordinary world had split open for a moment to reveal some possibility never previously considered.