There were a lot of adventure books for boys, historical novels by Kenneth Roberts, and whatever mystery novels the alarmed librarian imagined might not corrupt an eager but innocent youth.

I liked the place I came from. But a lot of what I liked about it was that I had come from there.

What would be frightening about me jumping out of the bush wearing a pig mask is not the sudden surprise, not me, and not the pig mask, but that the ordinary world had split open for a moment to reveal some possibility never previously considered.

If I planned everything out in advance, I'd expire of boredom.

Intellectual labor is a common technique for the avoidance of thinking.

Occasionally.. .what you have to do is go back to the beginning and see everything in a new way.

The world is full of ghosts, and some of them are still people.