If thou wilt, remember

"And the starlight I see is a billion light years old. A ghost like the rest of us."

"I don't know if this is me at all, Or just some ghost of me that I dreamed up Just to sing myself to sleep, Or someone that I used to be, Or someone that I will be, Or someone that I am right now..."

"Anxious for some permanency, I guess I needed to be reminded how temporal permanency is."

"Perhaps there is no past or future, only the perpetual present that contains this trinity of memory."

"But every transformation is invariably a loss, and the transformed must be mourned before the transformed-into can be relished. "

"I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth."

“Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.”

"In the end, we all become stories".

"Power is only Pain— Stranded, thro' Discipline, Till Weights—will hang—"

"Ghosts do not haunt, they regress".

"I fictionalize to protect myself and my targets."

"¿Qué es un fantasma? Un evento terrible condenado a repetirse una y otra vez, un instante de dolor quizás, algo muerto que parece por momentos vivo aún, un sentimiento suspendido en el tiempo, como una fotografía borrosa, como un insecto atrapado en ámbar. Un fantasma, eso soy yo"

“Sometimes I would get home and have a nice little breakdown, having no idea what to do with all the loneliness I'd collected."

(...) I find that happiness is an extremely uneventful subject And there would be no grand choirs to sing No chorus could come in About two people sitting doing nothing (...) But the loneliness never left me I always took it with me But I can put it down in the pleasure of your company

YERMA.—Algunas cosas no cambian. Hay cosas encerradas detrás de los muros que no pueden cambiar porque nadie las oye. VÍCTOR.—Así es. YERMA.—Pero que si salieran de pronto y gritaran, llenarían el mundo.

"But secretly I knew I had been transformed, moved by the revelation that human beings create art, that to be an artist was to see what others could not"

(About becoming a woman and her relationship with her mother) "For a time I resented her. She was the messenger and also the message."