remember you must live. remember you most love. remainder you mist leaf.

Happy is what you realize you are a fraction of a second before it's too late.

Every great narrative is at least two narratives, if not more - the thing that is on the surface and then the things underneath which are invisible.

Books mean all possibilities. They mean moving out of yourself, losing yourself, dying of thirst and living to your full. They mean everything.

I wouldn't call my work Modernist. I would rust if I try to think about labels. I'd feel like the Tin Man in 'The Wizard of Oz.

To be known so well by someone is an unimaginable gift. But to be imagined so well by someone is even better.

Oh. To be filled with goodness then shattered by goodness, so beautifully mosaically fragmented by such shocking goodness.

Stella Duffy is a writer who never lets you down.

Do you come to art to be comforted, or do you come to art to be re-skinned?

We'd never expect to understand a piece of music on one listen, but we tend to believe we've read a book after reading it just once.

Short stories consume you faster. They're connected to brevity. With the short story, you are up against mortality. I know how tough they are as a form, but they're also a total joy.

Ignite the fire of loving kindness in your soul, fuel that fire with understanding and compassion for others, and start a bonfire of love worldwide.

I've been called the journeyman. It's really more by default than it is by design.

Love is the desire to give, not to receive, something. Love is the art of producing something with the other's talents.

It's very scary to allow the world to see you.

One hears - one does not seek; one takes - one does not ask who gives.

It's really cool to see the transformation of reading something on a page and it coming to life.

It hurts and hurts to have him this close. I feel sick with it.

... the Power who gave a power, by its mere existence, signifies that it must be brought out towards perfection.

What you are will make you what you will become.

But maybe those things are like background noise if you’re from here. Maybe you have to experience this as a whole new place to appreciate it like I do.