We're taught to expect unconditional love from our parents, but I think it is more the gift our children give us. It's they who love us helplessly, no matter what or who we are.

Scars are stories, history written on the body

For me, writing is inseparable from thinking. I could say the entire undertaking is a vast cerebral construct against my demons. It's the thing that I love. It's my identity.

The dizzy rapture of starving. The power of needing nothing. By force of will I make myself the impossible sprite who lives on air, on water, on purity.

My days are as long as despair can make them.

I've always been interested in the intersection between our rational and our unconscious lives.

Don’t portray yourself as who you want to be. Portray yourself as who you are.

I can't work out much about myself or what I see in the world around me unless I do it through writing.

Writing is how I stay sane. It's completely necessary.

Sometimes there's a sort of tear in the veil, and there are people who live in more than one dimension.

There aren't many people in our history who have so completely surrendered themselves to a mission that they would give up their lives for it.

You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Life is a test from universe, if you are not willing to take the test, you won't give or get testimonials about your life".

It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks.

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.

Set yourself the bolder course. Keep your heart an open shrine.

If I dreamt this, while walking, walking in the London streets, the subconscious of each and every other life, past and present, brushing me in passing, what makes it real? Writing it down.

I allow no one to touch me.

Yeah, and by the way? How much does it suck that I'm an adult if I kill somebody, and not if I want a beer?

These days, if you happen to be a poet you have to sing your words to get your ideas out.

Only he who can view his own past as an abortion sprung from compulsion and need can use it to full advantage in the present.