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.

The library was the place I went to find out what there was to know. It was absolutely essential.

It's not in good taste to have talking ghosts in a grown-up novel.

She loved you in the morning because the day was new.

Without the balancing context of everyday life, all you have is the news, and news by its nature is generally bad.

When people use that stream of consciousness, it's kind of just a term they use for anything that looks slightly different on the page.

You must live life with the full knowledge that your actions will remain. We are creatures of consequence.