“If you think something's happened quickly, you're looking at only a part of it.”

“Everything that happens is the last time it happens. We see things only as their own fatal brightness and there is nothing after that brightness.”

“You can't learn from remembering. You can't learn from guessing. You can learn only from moving forward at the rate you are moved, as brightness into brightness.”

“I tend to forget that my measurement of time is designed to distract me from what's really happening.”

“Those who claim to write about something larger and more significant than the self sometimes fail to comprehend the dimensions of self.”

“My friend Isabel says, When you’re writing even a short novel, with at least a couple of subplots, and God only knows how many characters, your brain holds the volume of it beyond the ability of your consciousness.Of course.”

“Chair or no chair: a binary relation. But the vicissitudes of moving the body around are infinite. You never know what a person in a chair can do.”