“He said he preferred to feel the earth sing through his feet, and that shoes stopped you from hearing the song of the earth.”

“The poetry and transgression that was so much of surrealism's anarchic force has been recruited into mainstream culture. It has been made commonplace by television and magazine merchandising, by computer games and Internet visuals, by film and MTV, by the fashion shoot.”

“Perhaps writers should never be allowed to get together in a workplace context. It's not like studying computer science, after all. The emotions are at large, and are shared and are questioned. There is a vulnerability.”

“I am less interested in ghosts than in people who see ghosts.”

“Because two people in love don't make a hive mind. Neither should they want to be a hive mind, to think the same, to know the same. It's about being separate and still loving each other, being distinct from each other. One is the violin string one is the bow.”

“The mist hung in the air like a prancing unicorn.”

“There are certain songs, and books, and films that are like points of high ground in the memory. Like they are even larger than your own experiences. They never go away.”

“Some people feed you with love.”

“He said he preferred to feel the earth sing through his feet, and that shoes stopped you from hearing the song of the earth.”