To me, life, for all its privations, is a luminous thing. You have to risk it.

There is no discovery without risk and what you risk reveals what you value.

Do you wake up as I do, having forgotten what it is that hurts or where, until you move? There is a second of consciousness that is clean again. A second that is you, without memory or experience, the animal warm and waking into a brand new world. There is the sun dissolving the dark, and light as clear as music, filling the room where you sleep and the other rooms behind your eyes.

Life gives you enough hard knocks so it's unlikely you'll stay that sure of yourself.

Quest is at the heart of what I do-the holy grail, and the terror that you'll never find it, seemed a perfect metaphor for life.

The continuous narrative of existence is a lie. There is no continuous narrative, there are lit-up moments, and the rest is dark.