One good maxim to keep in mind, and I can't remember who said it, "You meet the same people on the way down that you meet on the way up, but you're going the other way."

I'm bad at picking heroes.

Romance takes place in the middle distance. Romance is looking in at yourself through a window clouded with dew. Romance means leaving things out: where life grunts and shuffles, romance only sighs.

Your hand is a warm stone I hold between two words.

But I began then to think of time as having a shape, something you could see, like a series of liquid transparencies, one laid on top of another.

All fathers are invisible in daytime; daytime is ruled by mothers and fathers come out at night. Darkness brings home fathers, with their real, unspeakable power. There is more to fathers than meets the eye.

Winning intoxicates you, and numbs you to the sufferings of others.