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"Memory is a strange thing. It doesn't work like I thought it did. We are not meant to remember everything. We're meant to forget, to move on."
Time isn't a line; it's a dimension, like the dimensions of space.
"We are all searching for something, and sometimes, what we find is not what we expected."
The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.
"In the end, it's not the facts that matter, but the truths we uncover through them."
"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter."
"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."
"Silence is not the absence of something, but the presence of everything."
The personal is not private; it is political.
"The poem is not a closed field, but an open one, and the reader is invited to enter."
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
I'm not a poet, I'm a trapeze artist.
"Memory is a strange thing. It doesn't work like I thought it did. We are so used to thinking of it as a camera or a tape recorder, but it's not like that at all. It's more like a painter. It creates a picture, but it's not always the same picture."
The stories are not autobiographical, but they're personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I've learned. Probably some things through observation, but what I feel I know surely is personal.
I want the reader to feel something is astonishing. Not the 'what happens,' but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do this best, for me.
The language of poetry is a language of exploration, not of communication.
The true subject of the novel is not the story, but the human soul.
"Art is not a mirror to reflect reality, but a hammer with which to shape it."
