“Should is a futile word. It's about what didn't happen. It belongs in a parallel universe. It belongs in another dimension of space.”

“I feel that what you should illustrate is the space between the words. It's the betweenness, the otherness, that gives depth and dimension.”

“There is time, and there is beyond time. History belongs to time, but truth belongs to what is beyond time. In writing of things as they should have been, you are letting truth into history. You are the word of God.”

“The mug was so warm, and my hands so cold, that it didn't feel as if we belonged in the same universe.”

“Master Alfred de Musset says great artists have no country. They have also no world! They belong to the space, to the universe, to anything infinite!”

“The world doesn't belong to us, we belong to it. Always have, always will. We belong to the world. We belong to the community of life on this planet--it doesn't belong to us. We got confused about that, now it's time to set the record straight”