There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.

Being called a 'bad citizen' is a compliment to a novelist, at least to my mind. That's exactly what we ought to do.

Technology and violence are interdependent.

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.

A person rises on a word and falls on a syllable.

World is supposed to mean something that's self-contained. but nothing is self-contained.

Maybe when we die, the first thing we'll say is 'I know this feeling. I was here before'.