“Each time a drop of water forms under the spout of a tap, it means that one can wrench something away from the nameless mass.”

“He wonders how so much water can resist the pull of so much gravity for the time it takes such pregnant clouds to form, he wonders about the moment the rain begins, the turn from forming to falling, that slight silent pause in the physics of the sky as the critical mass is reached, the hesitation before the first swollen drop hurtles fatly and effortlessly to the ground.”

“The ground we stand on looks solid enough, but if something happens it can drop right out from under you.”

“Make your characters want something right away even if it's only a glass of water. Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time.”

“I respond, thoughts dropping away, like pebbles plopping one by one in water, sinking down, down into dark oblivion.”

“I think talent is like a water table under the earth—you tap it with your effort and it comes through you.”