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- It is all about numbers. It is all about sequence. It's the mathematical logic of being alive. If everything kept to its normal progression, we…
- But the sky is interesting, it changes all the time.
- Listen. Look. Desire is a house. Desire needs closed space. Desire runs out of doors or windows, or slats or pinpricks, it can’t fit under…
- Light is good company, when alone; I took my comfort where I found it, and the warmest yellow bulb in the living-room lamp had become…
- Sometimes, she said, mostly to herself, I feel I do not know my children... It was a fleeting statement, one I didn't think she'd hold…
- With my hand in his, I looked at all the apartment buildings with rushes of love, peering in the wide streetside windows that revealed living…
- I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.
- Many kids, it seemed, would find out that their parents were flawed, messed-up people later in life, and I didn't appreciate getting to know it…
- That at the same time of this very intimate act of concentrating so carefully on the details of our mother's palm and fingertips, he was…
- While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave, the most so far, because she found the saddest thing of…
- We're all getting too smart. Our brains are just getting bigger and bigger, and the world dries up and dies when there's too much thought…
- For me, even in my first book, the pleasures of writing anything magical is that it has to be physical. It has to be grounded…
- Language is the ticket to plot and character, after all, because both are built out of language.
- I love all the arts - so museums, theatre, music, walks near trees or by the ocean, time with people, psychological readings.
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- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
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- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Throughout all of this confusion, I hope I somehow get to you. I practice all the things I'd say to tell you… — Superman
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