I don't consider myself paranoid at all. I think I see things exactly as they are.

It was important for him to believe that he'd spent his life among people who kept missing the point.

It is all falling indelibly into the past.

Writers, some of us, may tend to see things before other people do, things that are right there but aren't noticed in the way that a writer might notice.

There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.

That's why people take vacations. No to relax or find excitement or see new places. To escape the death that exists in routine things.

Terror is now the world narrative, unquestionably. When those two buildings were struck, and when they collapsed, it was, in effect, an extraordinary blow to consciousness, and it changed everything.