That's what in theory differentiates a writer from everyone else. You see and hear more clearly.

I was always younger than anyone around me. One day it began to change.

Making things difficult for the reader is less an attack on the reader than it is on the age and its facile knowledge-market.

In a crisis the true facts are whatever other people say they are.

We seem to believe it is possible to ward off death by following rules of good grooming.

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.

Fame and secrecy are the high and low ends of the same fascination.