War is the ultimate game because war is at last a forcing of the unity of existence. War is god.

Things separate from their stories have no meaning. They are only shapes. Of a certain size and color. A certain weight. When their meaning has become lost to us they no longer have even a name. The story on the other hand can never be lost from its place in the world for it is that place.

Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.

I always thought when I got older that God would sort of come into my life in some way. He didn't. I don't blame him. If I was him I'd have the same opinion about me that he does.

It was always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals came easily.

Then they set out along the blacktop in the gunmetal light, shuffling through the ash, each the other's world entire.

Even the damned in hell have the community of their suffering.