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

Past, present and future are not amenities of language. Time unfolds into the seamsof being. It passes through you, making and shaping.

Prayer is a practical strategy, the gaining of temporal advantage in the capital markets of Sin and Remission.

We surrounded ourselves with smoke and loud noise. That's the way we chose to live. I'm prepared to defend it.

Ecology is boring for the same reason that destruction is fun.

Everything's a scandal. Dying's a scandal. But we all do it.

He'd once told me that the art of getting ahead in New York was based on learning how to express dissatisfaction in an interesting way. The air was full of rage and complaint. People had no tolerance for your particular hardship unless you knew how to entertain them with it.