There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it.

Was she naked?" Lasher said. "To the waist," Cotsakis said. "From which direction?" Lasher said.

The term itself--my life--is a desperate overstatement.

People stress the violence. That's the smallest part of it. Football is brutal only from a distance. In the middle of it there's a calm, a tranquility. The players accept pain. There's a sense of order even at the end of a running play with bodies strewn everywhere. When the systems interlock, there's a satisfaction to the game that can't be duplicated. There's a harmony.

The excitement of theatre is palpable but the frustrations, and the complete absence of a definitive evening - the play as text means practically nothing in a way - , there's no particular performance that is definitive in the way a novel is a solid object you hold in your hands and here it is. You can't say that about a play. If the novel gives us a sense of throbbing consciousness, theater is pure soul, beautiful and elusive.

It was only when I found myself writing things I didn't realise I knew that I said, 'I'm a writer now.'

Once you've seen the signs about the barn, it becomes impossible to see the barn.