“Perhaps sex isn't of the body at all. Perhaps it is a function of language.”

“Perhaps it is how we are made; perhaps words of truth reach us best through the heart, and stories and songs are the language of the heart”

“Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it.”

“If and perhaps…. The language of procrastination and uncertainty. That's just people looking to justify their own lack of action.”

“When it comes to bodies, there is violence done every day. I did not think of body horror as a sub-genre when writing it, but I think the body is a source of great anxiety to each of us. So you shave (legs, armpits, or chin), taking a blade to yourself; perhaps you exercise, causing yourself pain; perhaps you fast or diet, denying yourself; perhaps your job means you have to stay awake. If you think about it, life itself consists of low-levels of body horror all the time. To write fiction, we just exaggerate some of what happens naturally…”

“Somewhere in his body--perhaps in the marrow of his bones--he would continue to feel her absence.”

“Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of what it is.”

“In my opinion, besides science, language and mathematics, perhaps tolerance is the most important thing that should be taught in schools nowadays.”

“The Court is perhaps one of the last citadels of jealously preserved individualism. For the most part, we function as nine, small independent law firms.”

“Sex isn't all that important, but it is when you love someone very much.”