To name the world in your own terms, to tell your own story, is an act of authority and power. When you write, you are saying, in effect, 'I have a voice. I have a story. This is what I have to say.'

Memory is an act of meaning-making. It collects the disparate pieces of our lives and distills them.

Of the five senses, smell is the one with the best memory.

I fall into books the way I fall into lust - wholly, hungrily.

The shortest distance between two points is always under construction.

When we replace a sense of service and gratitude with a sense of entitlement and expectation, we quickly see the demise of our relationships, society, and economy.

If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?

When I made you my Everything, you gave me nothing. If I made you my Nothing would you want to give me everything?

Desire something and don't just care what you have to go through to get it.

My action follows my characters. If a character is a cop, you cannot be posing all the time, you cannot fly off the roof because it doesn't make any sense - it's not practical.

You are more dangerous than daybreak.

I think, as we all learn as a child, you have to learn to tolerate ambiguity better and I'm still terrible at it and I hate it; even the word ambiguity makes me sick to me stomach.

I always felt like the rug could be pulled out from under me at anytime. And coming from a racially mixed background, I always felt like I didn't really fit in anywhere.

Can you imagine a world in which the letter O does not exist? My name would be Thm Yrke. Think about that.

Silent as despairing love, and strong as jealousy.