People make events into stories. Stories give events meaning.

Real life is physical. Give me books instead. Give me the invisibility of the contents of books, the thoughts, the ideas, the images. Let me become part of a book. . . . an intertextual being: a book cyborg, or, considering that books aren't cybernetic, perhaps a bibliorg.

I think predictability is built into any good novel in some way - you begin reading Anna Karenina and you know pretty much what's going to happen at the end. But that doesn't mean you know what's going to happen in the middle. For me, it's that sense of what happens in the middle that's important.

I think about stories and their logic and wonder if there can be any such thing as simply "there is a book.

But I quite like the way you can talk about science without necessarily using mathematics, but using metaphors instead.

I wonder at what point my life swerved to avoid that, and if that life would have been nicer than the one I've got.

I erased the thought from my mind, but I couldn't undo the fact that I'd had the thought in the first place.