A plot begins when somebody has something to hide.

A man is not much if he can't depend on himself, and nothing if others can't depend on him.

The trouble with you, Vic," he said, "is that you think of the world as a sort of huge museum with too many visitors allowed in.

The past beats inside me like a second heart.

For memory, we use our imagination. We take a few strands of real time and carry them with us, then like an oyster we create a pearl around them.

I had never liked, even feared a little, this wild reach of marsh and mud flats where everything seemed turned away from the land, looking off desperately toward the horizon as if in mute search for a sign of rescue.

Doing what you do well is death. Your duty is to keep trying to do things that you don't do well, in the hope of learning.