My role relationship to the event will continue to mutate. My relationship to my mother will continue to change as I revise my judgments of her depending on what I learn about her. It goes on. But I feel no less obsessive about my work and no less passionately committed to the life I have now, but I feel poised inside. Which is a good thing to feel at 48.

Tell me anything. Tell me everything. Revoke our time apart. Love me fierce in danger.

Dead people belong to the live people who claim them most obsessively.

Closure is a preposterous concept worthy of the worst aspects of American daytime TV.

[Raymond] Chandler, I reread him, and there's a lot of bad writing there. I don't think he knew much about people.

I got a woman I'm loyal to above all things, above my career. She's profound to me. I'm quiet. I live in Kansas City. I work.

I don't feel in any way obligated to remain current with the culture. I feel no social obligation whatsoever. I trust my morality in the narrow path I trek through the world as I work.