The Laws That Keep Us Safe, These

I'm Not Really Into Comfort Books. There Are Too Many Of Those As It Is. Just Sort Of Narcotic Books, Like My Grandmother Used To Read. They Have Value Like Paxil Has Value, But There's Plenty Of Them In The World Already. There's A Shortage Of Confronting, Stimulating, Exciting Books.

The Trick To Forgetting The Big Picture Is To Look At Everything Close-up.

On A Night Without Moon Or Stars You Can't See A Thing, But You Can Imagine Anything.

They're Just Words Is All. Powerless. Vocabulary. Dialogue.

If You Take My Stuff Apart, You'll Find My Choruses Of Repetitions Are Picked Up Almost Verbatim From Kurt Vonnegut, And My Distanced Fracture Quality Is All From Amy Hempel, Who's Probably My Favourite Writer.