Authors frequently say things they are unaware of; only after they have gotten the reactions of their readers do they discover what they have said

A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.

I don't see the point of having 80 million people online if all they are doing in the end is talking to ghosts in the suburbs.

When the writer (or the artist in general) says he has worked without giving any thought to the rules of the process, he simply means he was working without realizing he knew the rules.

At most, recognizing that our history was inspired by many tales we now recognize as false should make us alert, ready to call to constantly into question the very tale we believe true, because the criterion of the wisdom of the community is based on constant awareness of the fallibility of our learning.

A mystic is a hysteric who has met her confessor before her doctor.

I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn their early poetry, and bad poets publish it. Thankfully I gave up rather quickly.