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

You need to know things the others don't know. It's what no one knows about you that allows you to know yourself.

In our world we sleep and eat the image and pray to it and wear it too.

If an idea seems to find its way towards a stage setting, that's the direction I take. I don't know if I'm trying to achieve anything other than to follow an idea on to the page.

In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that's filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the act of terror may be the only meaningful act.

There are dead stars that still shine because their light is trapped in time. Where do I stand in this light, which does not strictly exist? (155)

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