“If something wants to be a story, it will be.”

“I realised that when someone plays hard to get, they are making themselves into a character in a story, and they choose the story that leads to the outcome they want.”

“People make events into stories. Stories give events meaning.”

“Not all events are stories.”

“I don’t have bionic arms, and I have absolutely no stamina. Once I rubbed out the penciled-in marginalia of a hundred pages of a book that I wanted to photocopy (long story) and afterwards it felt like I’d been wanking off a giant for a hundred years.”

“The storyless story is a vagina with teeth.”

“I think about stories and their logic and wonder if there can be any such thing as simply "there is a book.”