Because of the influence of the cinema, most reports or stories of violence are so pictorial that they lack content or meaning. The camera brings them to our eyes, but does not settle them in our minds, nor in time.

I shall never be as old as I was between 20 and 30.

Those mausoleums of inactive masculinity are places for men who prefer armchairs to women.

The State, that cawing rookery of committees and subcommittees.

I am under the spell of language, which has ruled me since I was 10.

We do not wish to be better than we are, but more fully what we are.

Short stories can be rather stark and bare unless you put in the right details. Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better.