why something and not nothing? why music and not noise?

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.

Was she naked?" Lasher said. "To the waist," Cotsakis said. "From which direction?" Lasher said.

There are two categories of writers, it could be said: The author who is just a voice, and the one who is also creating a picture. I belong to the latter, because I have an acute visual sense.

People think about who they are in the stillest hour of the night.

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.