I watch movies occasionally, and I watch documentaries. Virtually nothing else.

As technology advances in complexity and scope, fear becomes more primitive.

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

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

Years after I'd seen him for the last time I found myself thinking of him unexpectedly and often. You know how certain places grow powerful in the mind with passing time. In those early morning dreams when I come back to bed after a sleepy pee and fall quickly into the narrow end of the night, there is one set of streets I keep returning to, one dim mist of railroad rooms and certain figures reappear, borderline ghosts.

There are dead stars that still shine because their light is trapped in time. Where do I stand in this light, which does not strictly exist? (155)