“I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we’ll never know most of them”. [x]

“I write to give my life a form. I write to reach out to the real world, though I know that I write to stay away from a world that is still too real. In the end it’s no longer, and perhaps never was, the world that I like, but writing about it. I write to find out who I am; I write to give myself the slip. I write because I am always at one remove from the world but have grown to like saying so.” [x]

“Unless you have been very, very lucky, you have undoubtedly experienced events in your life that have made you cry. So unless you have been very, very lucky, you know that a good, long session of weeping can often make you feel better, even if your circumstances have not changed one bit.” [x]