I believe that reality is vastly richer than the cursory attention we usually give it permits us to understand. I like to write through a consciousness that allows me to suggest something of this richness.

...not deciding to act would be identical with deciding not to act.

I do assume that a character or a place is inexhaustible and will always reward further attention.

Memory is the sense of loss, and loss pulls us after it.

Sometimes my doubt seems intuitive, but most likely it derives from an implausibility or a logical problem I may at first find difficult to identify and articulate. It is interesting to me to work through questions that arise in this way.

pity and charity may be at root an attempt to propitiate the dark powers that have not touched us yet.

...if you ever wonder what you've done in your life, and everyone does wonder sooner or later, you have been God's grace to me, a miracle, something more than a miracle.