“I write for the same reason I breathe.....because if I did not, I would die.”

“I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.”

“I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.”

“I thought it was who I was with or where I was that defined me in some way. I realize now that I decide who I am, no matter the company I keep or the place I am.”

“Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.”

“I do not think I’m easy to define. I have a wandering mind. And I’m not anything that you think I am.”

“Here is a book of tongues.Take it. (Dark leaves invade the air.)Beware! I now know a language so beautiful and lethalMy mouth bleeds when I speak it.”