“The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.”

“Any great art work … revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world - the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.”

“Death is real, irreversible, and awful. Do you want some advice? Don't wait until you're dead to try to communicate. Do it now. You still have a chance. Not a great one, but a better one than you will have. If you think it's hard to get your point across now, and that no one really understands what you're about, just try it when you're dead.”

“I think I might understand the way time works: how its passing is impossible to see but when it's gone, you feel it.”

“When you understand a species' art, you understand that species.”

“It's the moment you think you can't, that you can”