“Why are we here? Well, we're peaking up the skirt of the ineffible now, and the answer is hidden by the poetic panties of language”

“Language is fossil poetry. As the limestone of the continent consists of infinite masses of the shells of animalcules, so language is made up of images, or tropes, which now, in their secondary use, have long ceased to remind us of their poetic origin.”

“We can't get outside the aura. We're part of the aura. We're here, we're now.”

“Writers are not here to conform. We are here to challenge. We're not here to be comfortable—we're here, really, to shake things up. That's our job.”

“Well, we're not in the middle of nowhere, but we can see it from here.”

“This is why Caliban was a punishment. I realize it now -- it's a beautiful, perfect world of nothingness. No connection, no longing, no . . . love. A world we're trapped in until we're needed here, a world we're condemned to while everyone we might care about forgets us.”