For me, university was just awful because it was closing one door after the other of all these candy shops of professional possibilities.

I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a new design.

We don't consider the roles that we're taking in making the world the way it is.

Everything interests me.

Only keep still, wait, and hear, and the world will open.

When you're sure of what you're looking at, look harder.

My dream has always been to suspend myself in space when I write, and lying horizontal in bed is the closest to doing that.