Books are carefully folded forests/void of autumn/bound from the sun

It's not the rules everywhere, you know? That's not the rules everywhere - that things have to be dumbed down in order to become massively popular. And that hasn't always been the rule, even in America.

A lie preserved in stained glass doesn't make it more true.

If you feel something, you should do it.

I think everybody on this planet does that - trying to capture your dream after you wake up.

If we're gonna progress as a people we are going to realise that, as one of my favourite poets says, the other is a lie. There are no other people. Race is a social construct.

I used to have weird practices in crowded used-book stores in New York where I'd go in and just stomp my foot and see what fell from the shelf. And of course, because it's an unexpected encounter, there's always some magic that comes from it.