A new reader shouldn't be able to find you in your work, though someone who's read more may begin to.

The theory for admitting accomplice testimony that is uncorroborated is that conspiracy is by its nature secretive and that only the parties to it can know it occurred. But in practice this means the accomplice's guilt is modified to the degree that he can convict the defendant.

A writer of books has to admit that film is the enemy, and that in my case I have been sleeping with the enemy.

You can't remember sex. You can remember the fact of it, and recall the setting, and even the details, but the sex of the sex cannot be remembered, the substantive truth of it, it is by nature self-erasing, you can remember its anatomy and be left with a judgment as to the degree of your liking of it, but whatever it is as a splurge of being, as a loss, as a charge of the conviction of love stopping your heart like your execution, there is no memory of it in the brain, only the deduction that it happened and that time passed, leaving you with a silhouette that you want to fill in again.

We are able to walk on air, but only as long as our illusion supports us.

The three most important documents a free society gives are a birth certificate, a passport, and a library card.

Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.