what makes us so afraid is the thing we half see, or half hear, as in a wood at dusk, when a tree stump becomes an animal and a sound becomes a siren. And most of that fear is the fear of not knowing, of not actually seeing correctly.

Movie people are possessed by demons, but a very low form of demons.

Kindness. The most unkind thing of all.

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

I know the mistake I am making. I see the exits in life.

It was the first time that I came face to face with madness and feared it and was fascinated by it.

I'm a tuning fork, tense and twanging all the time.