The Writer Is Always Tricking The Reader

Novels Are Like Paintings, Specifically Watercolors. Every Stroke You Put Down You Have To Go With. Of Course You Can Rewrite, But The Original Strokes Are Still There In The Texture Of The Thing.

I Was No Longer, If I Had Ever Been, Afraid To Die: I Was Now Afraid Not To Die.

Life Changes In The Instant. The Ordinary Instant.

The Future Always Looks Good In The Golden Land, Because No One Remembers The Past ... Here Is The Last Stop For All Those Who Come From Somewhere Else, For All Those Who Drifted Away From The Cold And The Past And The Old Ways.

In The Early Years, You Fight Because You Don't Understand Each Other. In The Later Years, You Fight Because You Do.