“I prefer to see things from behind the mirror, where everything is clearer.”

“Literary history and the present are dark with silences.”

“I exaggerate a lot and I get fiction and reality mixed up, but I don’t actually ever lie.”

“You might begin by wanting to speak, but eventually you’ll have to listen.”

"People don’t change. They just find new ways to lie."

“Any idiot can face a crisis; it’s this day-to-day living that wears you out.”

“The land remembers, even when the maps forget.”

“We all have something we want to preserve - a memory, a wound, a scent that tells us who we were.”

“Nothing can last forever. There isn’t any memory, no matter how intense, that doesn’t fade out at last.”