I loved the atmosphere of the dance studios - the wooden floors, the big mirrors, everyone dressed in pink or black tights, the musicians accompanying us - and the feeling of ritual the classes had.

My name is Luka I live on the second floor. I live upstairs from you, yes, I think you've seen me before.

Don't make a threat and then not do it.

If language were liquid, it would be rushing in. Instead here we are in a silence more eloquent than any word could ever be.

My intellect has always been more responsible than my emotions for how I respond to the world.

A lot of my writing is not terribly civilized. Sometimes I listen to songs by very smart writers who assume that the world is a civil place with certain formalities that people follow, but I don't see things that way. My own experience tells me that life is not like that. That's why I write the way I do.

I wasn't afraid of going places or doing new things. I would do just about anything or go anywhere. I'd get a notion in my mind and just follow it.