"Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems—but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems incredible."

"The idea that some thoughts are too dangerous to be thought is a dangerous idea for freedom."

"To be a writer is to be a criminal. To be a writer is to be a transgressor. It's to be someone who goes across the line."

"It's always the same story: people are afraid of what they don't understand."

"A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it from going to sleep."