Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.
It is a real wilderness, and those who go there should not feel too safe.
The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.
Readers, after all, are making the world with you. You give them the materials, but it's the readers who build that world in their own minds.
It is hard to swear when sex is not dirty and blasphemy does not exist.
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.