“A person rises on a word and falls on a syllable.”

“I don't want to do the type of writing where I recite biography, parentage and education. I want to rise up from the words on the page and do something, hurt someone.”

“It is all falling indelibly into the past.”

“Like I'm a person and you're a person, which gives you the right to kill me.”

“The falling away of things we carry around with us, twilight and chimney smoke.”

“Numbers behave, words do not.”

“It's healthier to reject certain cautions than fall in line. I assume you know that, he said.”