To be a romantic is to believe anything can happen to us.

Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find.

From surfeit to loss is a short line.

Open a book this minute and start reading. Don’t move until you’ve reached page fifty. Until you’ve buried your thoughts in print. Cover yourself with words. Wash yourself away. Dissolve.

There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

I'm concerned about the unknowability of other people.