“In other words, I tasted a different drug. A drug called progress.”

“Like forearm veins, my interests spread in different directions and eventually led to the hands, to writing.”

“The words he said, too, must be human enough to bleed.”

“The more inhuman we became the more we understood each other as humans.”

“I didn’t want anybody seeing my fire until I burned them with it.”

“In The Land of Poetry and Fighting, Efficiency rules the throne. I try to live here, so I shave my head because hair is dead and dead is inefficient.”

“How can I stand before you in silent symbols with open palms?”