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

Something is always happening, even on the quietest days and deep into the night, if you stand a while and look.

Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level.

...Because what's the meaning of doing dishes if you're not driven by something beyond necessity.

The difference between the world of pictures and the world of printed matter is extraordinary and hard to define. A picture is like the masses: a multitude of impressions. A book on the other hand, with its linear advance of words and characters seems to be connected to individual identity.

The writer is driven by his conviction that some truths aren't arrived at so easily, that life is still full of mystery, that it might be better for you, Dear Reader, if you went back to the Living section of your newspaper because this is the dying section and you don't really want to be here.

Every advance in knowledge and technique is matched by a new kind of death, a new strain. Death adapts, like a viral agent.