People steal into one's consciousness and occupy what seems, in retrospect, to have been their place all along.

Life is all getting used to what you're not used to.

I was the goldfish that leapt out of the bowl.

People steal into one's consciousness and occupy what seems, in retrospect, to have been their place all along.

Life was an impenetrable mystery cloaked in babble.

we are, in this country, more open to new ideas. But we are also, it seems to me, more inclined to hail the new as absolute truth - until the next new comes along.

When there's a terrible murder people who are interviewed say, 'This has always been a quiet neighborhood.' That is so dumb and uninformed! The earth is not a quiet neighborhood. There isn't anyplace that's a quiet neighborhood. People are asking themselves how to stay neat in the cyclone.