Then a miracle occurred in the form of a plate of sandwiches. Geryon took three and buried his mouth in a delicious block of white bread filled with tomatoes and butter and salt. He thought about how delicious it was, how he liked slippery foods, how slipperiness can be of different kinds. I am a philosopher of sandwiches, he decided. Things good on the inside.

You can get used to eating breakfast with a man in a fedora. You can get used to anything, my mother was in the habit of saying.

You remember too much," my mother said to me recently. "Why hold onto all that?" And I said, "where can I put it down?

Making is always a slightly hopeful thing because once you've made something, it'll - the world will be different.

Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It’s usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world.

Everything depends on liking the people and trusting the people. You have to assume that whatever they do will be as good as you want the thing to be and just go ahead with that.

Comfortable means gradually more and more flattened down, more and more blunt - less and less sharp and biting into you.