When birds look into houses, what impossible worlds they see.

True terror is a language and a vision. There is a deep narrative structure to terrorist acts, and they infiltrate and alter consciousness in ways that writers used to aspire to.

We commit our crimes at night and reveal ourselves in the high noon of studio lights.

Ask yourself this question. Do we have to be humans forever? Consciousness is exhausted. Back now to inorganic matter. This is what we want. We want to be stones in a field.

There are no amateurs in the world of children.

It's my contention that each book creates its own structure and its own length. I've written three or four slim books. It may be that the next novel is a big one, but I don't know.

How many beginnings before you see the lies in your excitement?