“...it begins with isolation - demons always inhabit desolate places...”
“Prison always has been a good place for writers, killing, as it does, the twin demons of mobility and diversion”
“Demon pox. There's always demon pox.”
“No wonder simple men have always had their gods dwell in the high places. For as soon as a man lets his eye drop from the heavens to the horizon, he risks setting it on some scene of desolation.”
“Grief. I don't know how to describe it other than as a roller coaster that drops you into the pit of hell with the rats and the demons, and then lifts you up above the clouds to the place where heaven begins.”
“The whole place seemed wrapped in isolated autumn silence.”