“To be an honest writer, you have to be away from home, and totally alone in life.”

“If our greatest fear is to sink away alone and unremembered, the brutality that time will inflict upon each of us will always run stronger than any river's murky waves.”

“Clichés remind and reassure us that we're not alone, that others have trod this ground long ago.”

“I'm home and safe and filled with the comfort of being somewhere I've already been. The ruckus of homecoming is brutally enjoyable and everyone makes me feel like a champion. And all I had to do was stay away long enough.”

“‎"A writer has to talk about the things that go untalked about”

“Freedom is the only thing we must demand in life, for all other good things stem from it”

“Perhaps we have stopped ourselves from being invented, from self-realization, by blaming others for our wordlessness.”