What is being awake if not interpreting our dreams, or dreaming if not interpreting our wake?

Everything is the way it is because everything was the way it was

Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.

If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand...... But until we find this new way of speaking, until we can find a nonapproximate vocabulary, nonsense words are the best thing we've got. Ifactifice is one such word.

I have made my own choice, which is vegetarianism, but it's not the choice I'm imposing on anybody else.

Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled.

Life was a small negative space cut out of the eternal solidity, and for the first time, it felt precious - not like all of the words that had come to mean nothing, but like the last breath of a drowning victim.