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.

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

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

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 you think something's happened quickly, you're looking at only a part of it.

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.

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