Fictional characters are made of words, not flesh; they do not have free will, they do not exercise volition. They are easily born, and as easily killed off.

Life is tragic but it's equally comic.

What is money, after all? Almost nothing, when one has a sufficiency of it.

I've always been fascinated by physics and cosmology. It gets more and more scary the older you get.

...being alone with him was like being in a room which someone had just violently left

Enormous morning, ponderous, meticulous; gray light streaking each bare branch, each single twig, along one side, making another tree, of glassy veins.

Sleep is uncanny, I have always found it so, a nightly dress-rehearsal for being dead.