“Words differently arranged have different meanings, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.”

“Life is a cracked surface at best. Fiction is a nice edifice. / every word/sentence/paragraph gives a writer an opportunity to reinforce or deliberately crack the edifice by screwing with meaning, structure, grammar, the fourth wall, etc. / different types and degrees of cracking produce different arrangements of order and chaos.”

“Some people are just afraid of what's different. It doesn't mean different is bad. It just means different is different. ”

“Justice? What is justice? It's a mere word. It's an abstract word with no universal meaning. To different classes of people, justice means different things.”

“The fact is that the same sequence of days can arrange themselves into a number of different stories.”

“If he'd known how long he was going to spend in the airport lounge of his own life, he'd have made different travel arrangements..”