If you aren't aware of the reader, you're working in a vacuum.
We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images.
I ... have another cup of coffee with my mother. We get along very well, veterans of a guerrilla war we never understood.
Only the dying man can tell how much time he has left.
I do have a strong sense of an order in the universe.
We are the stories we tell ourselves