Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.

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.

What makes life life and not a simple story? Jagged bits moving never still, all along the wall.

A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.

They were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics.

It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.

When I began to be published, people got the idea that I should 'teach writing,' which I have no idea how to do and don't really believe in.