“Writing about the unholy is one way of writing about what is sacred. ”

“If we have nothing to write about but nothing to write about, then that is what we have to write about.”

“I don't have any regrets, really, except that one. I wanted to write about you, about us, really. Do you know what I mean? I wanted to write about everything, the life we're having and the lives we might have had. I wanted to write about all the ways we might have died.”

“Pain is easy to write. In pain we're all happily individual. But what can one write about happiness?”

“Find what causes a commotion in your heart. Find a way to write about that”

“...But what is it all about, what am I trying to do, is there a message? Nobody knows, and I certainly don't. If one could answer these questions in any other way than by writing what one has written, then there would be no point in writing at all.”