“We have once again succeeded in destroying what we could not create.”

“We had once again succeeded indestroying what we could not create.”

“sure, we need the gypsies. we always have. because if you don't have someone to run out of town once in a while, how are you going to know you yourself belong there?”

“What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common....”

“Stories are artifacts, not really made things which we create and can take credit for, but pre-existing objects which we dig up.”

“We fool ourselves so much we could do it for a living.”

“Once again there was the desert, and that only.”