“The barriers between reality and fiction are softer than we think; a bit like a frozen lake. Hundreds of people can walk across it, but then one evening a thin spot develops and someone falls through; the hole is frozen over by the following morning.”
“Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen.”
“Making a decision to write was a lot like deciding to jump into a frozen lake.”
“Fictions are merely frozen dreams, linked images with some semblance of structure. They are not to be trusted, no more than the people who create them.”
“I invented underwear with only one leg hole, for people who like to concentrate on frozen orange juice while bungee jumping from a tampon string.”
“The frozen fish were later put in deep holes in the moss and covered over to keep until they were needed.”