It is interesting ... how weapons reflect the soul of the maker.

There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it.

The power of the dead is that we think they see us all the time. The dead have a presence. Is there a level of energy composed solely of the dead? They are also in the ground, of course, asleep and crumbling. Perhaps we are what they dream.

Plot a murder, you're saying. But every plot is a murder in effect. To plot is to die, whether we know it or not.

The less there was to see, the harder he looked, the more he saw. (Point Omega)

A novel determines its own size and shape and I've never tried to stretch an idea beyond the frame and structure it seemed to require.

Somehow pictures always lead to people as masses. Books belong to individuals.