“It seems to me a work of art is the evidence offered by a fantastically observant witness”

“Art is amoral, whether we accept this or not; it does not take sides. The finest fictions are cold at heart.”

“..., her mouth working mutely like the valve of an undersea creature”

“Of the things we fashioned for them that they might be comforted, dawn is the one that works.”

“There are times, they occur with increasing frequency nowadays, when I seem to know nothing, when everything I know seems to have fallen out of my mind like a shower of rain, and I am gripped for a moment in paralysed dismay, waiting for it all to come back but with no certainty that it will.”

“I had never liked, even feared a little, this wild reach of marsh and mud flats where everything seemed turned away from the land, looking off desperately toward the horizon as if in mute search for a sign of rescue.”

“The past beats inside me like a second heart.”