I like commas. I detest semi-colons — I don’t think they belong in a story. And I gave up quotation marks long ago. I found I didn’t need them, they were fly-specks on the page.

Dad is always hiding in his book.

History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.

I worry about images. Images are what things mean.

Someone dying asks if there is life after death. Yes, comes the answer, only not yours.

Time seems to me a drift, a shifting of sand. And my mind is shifting with it. I am wearing away.

I have been everywhere because I don't know what I'm looking for.