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.

There is a set of balances and rhythms to a novel that we can't experience in real life. So I think there is a sense in which fiction can rescue history from confusion.

The novel is the dream release, the suspension of reality that history needs to escape its own brutal confinements.

There are times when you want to stop working at faith and just be washed in a blowing wind that tells you everything.

Technology is lust removed from nature.

When birds look into houses, what impossible worlds they see.

Once you've seen the signs about the barn, it becomes impossible to see the barn.