“The story is uneven in its progression.”

“...the video-game form is incompatible with traditional concepts of narrative progression. Stories are about time passing and narrative progression. Games are about challenge, which frustrates the passing of time and impedes narrative progression. The story force wants to go forward and the "friction force" of challenge tries to hold story back. This is the conflict at the heart of the narrative game, one that game designers have thus far imperfectly addressed by making story the reward of a successfully met challenge.”

“The progressive intellectualization of language, its progressive conversion by the work of grammar and logic into a scientific symbolism, ... represents not a progressive drying-up of emotion, but its progressive articulation and specialization. ... We are acquiring new emotions and new means of expressing them.”

“Short stories do not say this happened and this happened and this happened. They are a microcosm and a magnification rather than a linear progression.”

“Some books were little stairways, different levels of the self telling the same stories at progressively higher levels of the ladder.”

“Creative minds are uneven, and the best of fabrics have their dull spots.”