The question of dying becomes a wise reminder. It cures us of our innocence of the future.

the instant he knew he loved her, she slipped down his body and out of his arms

When I work I have a sculptor's sense of the shape of the words I'm making. I use a machine with larger than average letters: the bigger the better.

Sometimes a thing that's hard is hard because you're doing it wrong. (Point Omega)

Murray said, ´I don´t trust anybody´s nostalgia but my own. Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It´s a settling of grievances between the present and the past. The more powerful the nostalgia, the closer you come to violence. War is the form nostalgia takes when men are hard-pressed to say something good about their country.´

The family is the cradle of the world's misinformation.

It frequently happens that I begin a novel with just a visual image of something, a vague sense of people in three dimensional space.