For a moment she'd wondered if the seal around her sockets were tight enough to allow the tears simply to go on and fill up the entire lens space and never dry. She could carry the sadness of the moment with her that way forever, see the world refracted through those tears, those specific tears, as if indices as yet unfound varied in important ways from cry to cry.

Everybody who says the same words is the same person if the spectra are the same only they happen differently in time, you dig? But the time is arbitrary. You pick your zero point anywhere you want, that way you can shuffle each person's time line sideways till they all coincide.

If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.

He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.

Hey, over here! Have your picture taken with a reclusive author! Today only, we'll throw in a free autograph! But wait, there's more!

It all comes down, as it must, to the desires of individual men. Oh, and women too of course, bless their empty little heads.

They plot, they plot, sleeping or afoot they never let up.