“To be an artist, you need to exist in a world of silence.”

“An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing.”

“The spider is a repairer. If you bash into the web of a spider, she doesn’t get mad. She weaves and repairs it.”

“My knives are like a tongue - I love, I do not love, I hate. If you don’t love me, I am ready to attack. I am a double-edged knife.”

“It is not so much where my motivation comes from but rather how it manages to survive.”

“When reading, one needs to remember that poets and philosophers are not prescribing courses of action but exploring aspects of existence.”

“some people meet the way the sky meets the earth, inevitably, and there is no stopping or holding back their love. It exists in a finished world, beyond the reach of common sense.”