I always try to be alert to the potential for repetition, for a decaying orbit with regard to my use of technique, etc.

I always try to be alert to the potential for repetition, for a decaying orbit with regard to my use of technique, etc.

Trust your imagination. Don't be afraid to fail. Write. Revise. Revise. Revise.

You can either waste time worrying about a death that might not come or concentrate on what’s left to you.

You could know the what of something forever and never discover the why.

The map had been the first form of misdirection, for what is a map but a way of emphasizing some things and making other things invisible?

Once you realize there's less logic in human institutions than you once thought, you see the narrative potential in just about everything around you. Sometimes, in fact, it seems as if the human world runs on inefficiency and erratic behavior.