“You remember too much, my mother said to me recently. Why hold onto all that? And I said, Where can I put it down?”

“I do think I have an ability to record sensual and emotional facts and factoids, to construct a convincing surface of what life feels like, both physical life and emotional life.”

“Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.”

“THE PRESOCRATIC PROBLEM [all snap flags] Parmenides named his gun The Hot Power of the Stars. His gun was one, uncreated, imperishable, timeless, changeless, perfect, spherical. Spherical wa...”