First rule of writing: When still a child, make sure you read a lot of books. Spend more time doing this than anything else.

It was a kiss from the past.

'A reality shaped around your own desires' - there is something sociopathic in that ambition.

Rarely does one see a squirrel tremble.

Sometimes, one wants to have the illusion that one is making ones own life, out of ones own resources.

No matter what anyone says, suicide takes guts. It's for heroes and martyrs, truly vainglorious men. Archie was none of these. He was a man whose significance in the Greater Scheme of Things could be figured along familiar ratios: Pebble : Beach Raindrop : Ocean Needle : Haystack

It seems that if you put people on paper and move them through time, you cannot help but talk about ethics, because the ethical realm exists nowhere if not here: in the consequences of human actions as they unfold in time, and the multiple interpretive possibility of those actions.