Then she was pressing her little proud broken self against his face, as close as she could get, and then they died.

After modernism, things changed. Indeed, modernism sometimes seems to me like an equivalent of the Fall. Remember, the first thing Adam and Eve did when they ate the fruit was to discover that they had no clothes on. They were embarrassed. Embarrassment was the first consequence of the Fall. And embarrassment was the first literary consequence of this modernist discovery of the surface. "Am I telling a story? Oh my God, this is terrible. I must stop telling a story and focus on the minute gradations of consciousness as they filter through somebody's.

From what we are, spirit; from what we do, matter. Matter and spirit are one.

We shouldn't live as if [other worlds] mattered more than this life in this world, because where we are is always the most important place.

Then she was pressing her little proud broken self against his face, as close as she could get, and then they died.

Maybe sometimes we don't do the right thing because the wrong thing looks more dangerous, and we don't want to look scared, so we go and do the wrong thing just because it's dangerous. We're more concerned with not looking scared than with judging right.

I don't profess any religion; I don't think it's possible that there is a God.... My books are about killing God.