Because friends have to be brutally honest with each other. I'd feel terrible if I didn't tell you what I was thinking, especially at a time like this

Stories have no point if they don't absorb our terror.

People think about who they are in the stillest hour of the night.

All plots tend to move deathward. This is the nature of plots.

The novel is the dream release, the suspension of reality that history needs to escape its own brutal confinements.

Digital clocks took the 'space' out of time.

A Catholic is raised with the idea that he will die any minute now and if he doesn't live his life in a certain way, this death is an introduction to an eternity of pain.