“...hoarders of guilty secrets are inevitably consumed with appearances.”
“The artist is a collector. Not a hoarder, mind you, there's a difference: Hoarders collect indiscriminately, artists collect selectively. They only collect things that they really love.”
“It would in retrospect appear to be a stop on a narrative path that was inevitable, but this is only because most events, most paths, feel inevitable in retrospect.”
“...She nourishes the poison in her veins and is consumed by a secret fire.”
“The skin of everyday appearances stretched over such shamelessness, such consuming explosions of lust.”
“Any event once it has occurred can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.”