Let us not mock God with metaphor, Analogy, sidestepping, transcendence; Making of the event a parable, a sign painted in the Faded credulity of earlier ages: Let us walk through the door.

Unlike the older, more humanly shaped arts, which begin with a seed and accumulate their form organically, photography clips its substance out of an actual continuum.

The crooked little tomato branches, pulpy and pale as if made of cheap green paper, broke under the weight of so much fruit; there was something frantic in such fertility, a crying-out like that of children frantic to please.

Faith is not so much a binary pole as a quantum state, which tends to indeterminacy when closely examined.

Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.

Nothing feels worse than other people's good times.

School is where you go between when your parents can't take you and industry can't take you.