"I film with my body. The camera is not an eye; it’s skin."

"The ability to endure, to inhabit norms, can itself be a modality of freedom.”

“All writing is autobiography. Everything you write, including criticism and fiction, writes you as you write it.”

“Style is not decoration—it is a mode of thinking.”

"Writing is not about delivering a message. It is about discovering what the message could be.”

"Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”

"We like lists because we don’t want to die.”

"The imperial shutter has never stopped clicking. To unlearn imperialism is to learn to see what was made invisible.”

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

“I write because I want to know what I think, and because sometimes I can’t tell if I’m thinking or remembering.”

“What we see changes what we know. What we know changes what we see.”