There are words and words and none mean anything. And then one sentence means everything.

I do feel like a fraud a lot of the time because I've never been interested in people who say 'I'm a writer', 'I'm an artist'. Too much is made of the role and not enough of the work. We are such a celebrity-driven age and a status-driven age, that the status becomes more important than the actual work.

I'm afraid a lot of people have lost a lot of money over the years betting on me.

When forging money, I had always salved my conscience by concluding that I was merely extending the lie of commerce.

Love is the scent of a sleeping back, death a slight draft of bad breath.

Writing is not lying, nor is it theft. It is a journey and search for transparency between one’s words and one’s soul.

The path to survival was to never give up on the small things.