You've got to work with your mistakes until they look intended. Understand?

I am a cigarette with a body attached to it

A little autobiography and a lot of imagination are best.

The smooth stones you pick up and examine under the moon's light have been made blue from the sea. Next morning when you pull them from your trouser pocket, they are still blue.

This is awful. I don't know what's going to happen to me or to anyone else in the world.

You're...writing for other writers to an extent-the dead writers whose work you admire, as well as the living writers you like to read.

I loved you so much once. I did. More than anything in the whole wide world. Imagine that. What a laugh that is now. Can you believe it? We were so intimate once upon a time I can't believe it now. The memory of being that intimate with somebody. We were so intimate I could puke. I can't imagine ever being that intimate with somebody else. I haven't been.