People say to write about what you know. I'm here to tell you, no one wants to read that, cos you don't know anything. So write about something you don't know. And don't be scared, ever.

If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.

The concept of physical beauty as a virtue is one of the dumbest, most pernicious and destructive ideas of the Western world, and we should have nothing to do with it.

You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.

Lay my head on the railroad line. Train come along; pacify my mind.

The vitality of language lies in its ability to limn the actual, imagined and possible lives of its speakers, readers, writers.

Certain seeds it will not nurture, certain fruit it will not bear and when the land kills of its own volition, we acquiesce and say the victim had no right to live