Reading is a private pursuit; one that takes place behind closed doors.

Time is not outside us, but inside. Only we live with past, present, and future, and the present is too brief to experience anyway; it is retained afterward and then it is either codified or it slips into amnesia.

Memory is essential to who we are, and memories can be both implicit and explicit - unconscious and conscious.

Reading is perception as translation. The inert signs of an alphabet become living meanings in the mind.

Ture stories can't be told forward, only backward. We invent them from the vantage point of an ever-changing present and tell ourselves how they unfolded.

Dreams are stories made by and for the dreamer.

Dreams are stories made by and for the dreamer, and each dreamer has his own folds to open and knots to untie.