Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.

There's something so showy about desperation, it takes hard wits to see it's a grandiose form of funk.

What is being said is the effect of something that has happened; at the same time, what is being said is in itself something happening, which will, in turn, leave its effect.

without fiction, either life would be insufficient or the winds from the north would blow too cold.

Plot is the knowing of destination.

Dialogue is the ideal means of showing what is between the characters. It crystallizes relationships. It should, ideally, be so effective as to make analysis or explanation of the relationships between the characters unnecessary.

Makes of men date, like makes of car.