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.

If you feel a bump on page one hundred, it may be you went off on page fifty.

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

It was evident to him that the world composed and recomposed itself constantly in an endless process of dissatisfaction.

A novelist is a person who lives in other people's skins.

And so the ordinary unendurable torments we all experienced were indeed exceptional in the way they were absorbed in each heart.

Images break with a small ping, their destruction is as wonderful as their being, they are essentially instruments of torture exploding through the individual's calloused capacity to feel undifferentiated emotions full of longing and dissatisfaction and monumentality.