After years of having immersed myself in science, I do think that if you master several different ways of thinking, it makes your own thought processes more agile.

Human beings are repetitive animals. All meaning is generated through repetition.

I remember thinking how easy it is to speak in clichés, to steal a line from pulp fiction and let it fall. We can only hover around the inexpressible with our words anyway, and there is comfort in saying what we have heard before.

There is this assumption that much of what I write is about my life, and that simply is not true.

Libraries are sexual dream factories. The langour brings it on.

I will turn human anatomy into roses and stars and sea. I will dissect the beloveds body in metaphor.

Our memory fragments don't have any coherence until they're imagined in words. Time is a property of language, of syntax, and tense.