Brilliant people never think of the lives they smash, being brilliant.

There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live.

She became confused when she stepped onto an escalator that wasn't working.

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.

the instant he knew he loved her, she slipped down his body and out of his arms

It occurred to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain.

The genius of the primitive mind is that it can render human helplessness in noble and beautiful ways.