The past is always tense, the future perfect.

To me, these kind of everyday miseries act as a fatal disqualifier. My sunniest beliefs are basically contingent on the fact that my child is not dying of cancer right now.

Generally, women can't do this, but men retain the ancient ability to leave a family and a past. They just unhook themselves, like removing a fake beard, and skulk discreetly back into society, changed men. Unrecognizable.

You're a library of me.

Writing is my way of expressing - and thereby eliminating - all the various ways we can be wrong-headed.

Art is the Western myth, with which we both console ourselves and make ourselves.

Fate is a quantity very much like TV: an unstoppable narrative, written, produced and directed by somebody else.