Even though we've written epic poems and made incredible films about love, I still don't think anyone can understand what it is, or why it means everything.

Recording stories is a way of honoring the faculty of memory, even if it's recorded, outsourcing memory to technology.

I come from a culture that has refined the art of the dirge to a sublime level.

The truth, and nothing but the truth, is that dawn begins with a wrestling match with my soul and a systematic rejection of all the other useful possibilities a day offers. I make obeisance to the story, its characters, and the muse with burnt offerings.

It may not seem that way, but I am an absolute optimist, an unrepentant optimist.

I like talking to myself and making patterns out of the letters of the alphabet on blank surfaces.

Even if we want to eradicate our ghosts, our dead, our murdered, even if you erase a name and the record of the existence of a person, somebody remembers.