I will turn human anatomy into roses and stars and sea. I will dissect the beloveds body in metaphor.

A book is a collaboration between the one who reads and what is read and, at its best, that coming together is a love story like any other.

There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition.

Correlation is not cause, it is just a 'music of chance'.

Not telling is just as interesting as telling I have found. Why speech, that short verbal journey from inside to outside can be excrutiating under certain circumstances is fascinating.

We chart delusions through collective agreement.

The fictive is an emormous territory it turns out, its boundaries vague, and there is little certainty about where it begins and ends.

We are all dying one by one. We all smell of mortality, and we can't wash it off.

...just because someone is a loner, it doesn't mean they’re alone. And just because someone is alone, it doesn't mean they’re lonely.

Rock-a-bye baby on the tree top When the wind blows the cradle will rock When the bough breaks the cradle will fall Down will come baby cradle and all.

It is my belief that everything you need to know about the world can be learned in a church choir.

I resent the implication that I'm less of a musician and a worse person for not appreciating certain works.

He that hath a head of waxe must not walke in the sunne. [He that hath a head of wax must not walk in the sun.]

The fool is often oblivious of his own gaucherie.

Italians still know how to enjoy life, even as the country seems stuck in place.

Government is a gang of thieves writ large.

The point of revenge is not in the completion but in the process.

The best presenters have conversations with their audiences.