I never have a thematic intention at the outset.

When people begin to lose hope, there's bound to be explosions.

People with a high tolerance for boredom can get a lot of thinking done.

sure, we need the gypsies. we always have. because if you don't have someone to run out of town once in a while, how are you going to know you yourself belong there?

As infants, our first victory comes in grasping some bit of the world, usually our mother's fingers. Later we discover that the world, and the things of the world, are grasping us, and have been all along.

Until that afternoon in October four years ago, I hadn't known dogs could scream.

All is forgotten in the stone halls of the dead. These are the rooms of ruin where the spiders spin and the great circuits fall quiet, one by one.