Not that believing such things has anything to do with whether they are true. You see that, don't you?

I believe my friends think I'm funny. All the books are full of humor. Maybe it is a quiet sort of humor that masquerades as not-much-at-all. It is certainly easy to miss.

The books turn out to be about things afterwards. I don't go into them with concepts, for the most part.

Different times and different structures make more sense at one point in life than at another.

The old man began to sing. His voice was very lovely and obviously a part of something that the world had disposed of in its haste, evidence of a grander, kinder past.

Americans are genuinely and profoundly anti-intellectual. They are especially so in their pleasure-seeking, which is epically banal.

Not that believing such things has anything to do with whether they are true. You see that, don't you?