Why did god create a dual universe? So he might say ‘Be not like me. I am alone.' And it might be heard.

Scars are the paler pain of survival received unwillingly and displayed in the language of injury.

Anger is one way to respond to fear. I say one way because responses are categorically multiple.

I believe the structure of 'House of Leaves' is far more difficult to explain than it is to read. And while I'd like to lay claim to some extraordinary act of originality, truth is I'm only taking advantage of capabilities inherent in everyone.

Because the enormous narcissism of their parents deprived Will and Tom of suitable role models, both brothers learned to identify with absence. Consequently, even if something beneficial fortuitously entered their lives they immediately treated it as temporary. By the time they were teenagers they were already accustomed to a discontinuous lifestyle marked by constant threats of abandonment and the lack of any emotional stability. Unfortunately, "accustomed to" here is really synonymous with "damaged by.

Make no mistake, those who write long books have nothing to say. Of course those who write short books have even less to say.

I will walk heavy, and I will walk strange.