"We live in a world in which the only utopian visions arrive in commercial breaks: magical visions of an impossibly hospitable world, peopled by bright-eyed attractive men, women, children… Where nobody dies… In my worlds people died. And I thought that was honest. I thought I was being honest."
"Don’t be reckless with other people’s hearts, and don’t put up with people that are reckless with yours."
"Recounting the strange is like telling one’s dreams: one can communicate the events of a dream but not the emotional content, the way a dream can color one’s entire day."