Perhaps all anxiety might derive from a fixation on moments - an inability to accept life as ongoing.

I like people who possess either deep mastery or deep empathy, but not as much as I like those who possess both.

Chair or no chair: a binary relation. But the vicissitudes of moving the body around are infinite. You never know what a person in a chair can do.

Look at me, dancing my little dance for a few moments against the background of eternity.

I don't write toward a genre, and I try not to make claim to a genre after a book is published. That said, The Guardians isn't poetry. It's prose.

The best thing about time passing is the privilege of running out of it, of watching the wave of mortality break over me and everyone I know.

If I'm not writing a thing, depression might be looming.