But tomorrow came faster than expected, as if the future were never somewhere else, but all along part of the fabric of every present, merely untwining itself again and again into a new distinction th...
the seriousness of emotional deprivation:It is not difficult to understand how children who have suffered from malnutrition or starvation need food and plenty of care in their bodies are to recover so...
When Unguarded Thoughts Returned Over Breakfast--He needs to eatand so opens the fridge to retrievealong with breada brick of butter.--[illegible], Paris.July 26, 1988
To repeat: her voice has life. It possesses a quality not present in the original, revealing how a nymph can return a different and more meaningful story, in spite of telling the same story.
This is not for you.
Our newness lies only in parts rearranged.
Navidson's troubles might not have created the house, but they did ultimately shape the way he faced it.
My hands resemble some ancient tree: the roots that bind up the earth, the rock and the ceaselessly nibbling wordms.
Make no mistake, those who write long books have nothing to say. Of course those who write short books have even less to say.
Love of love written by the broken hearted, love of life written by the dead.
It's too annoying. Too me.
It is hungry, it it immortal. Worse, it knows nothing of whim.
Irony? Irony can never be more than our own personal Maginot line; the drawing of it, for the most part, purely arbitrary.
How easily she finds the impossible in the ordinary.
Aside from recurrance, revision, and commensurate symbolic reference, echoes also reveal emptiness. Since objects always impede acoustic reflection, only empty places can create echoes of lasting clar...
And so now, in the shadow of unspoken events, I watch Zampanò's courtyard darken.Everything whimsical has left.I try to study the light-going carefully. From my room. In the glass of memory. In the mo...
She still cannot resist looking out the window every couple of minutes. The sound of a passing truck causes her to glance away. Even if there is no sound, the weight of a hundred seconds always turns...
What miracle is this? This giant tree.It stands ten thousand feet highBut doesn't reach the ground. Still it stands.Its roots must hold the sky.
This much I'm certain of: it doesn't happen immediately. You'll finish [the book] and that will be that, until a moment will come, maybe in a month, maybe a year, maybe even several years. You'll be s...
Scientists estimate the universe unfolded from its state of infinite destiny* - a moment commonly referred to as the big bang - approximately 1.3-2 x 10^10 years ago.*Typo: destiny should read density...