...action restarting action: all we need to reverse inertia is some sense of consequence - some sense that beyond this occurrence there is another, and that they are linked, some sense that life has chapters.

...he felt frustrated, his sense of fate and direction subverted by banalities - the frustration of the man who, having thought himself following his destiny, …

That's the thing about your destiny: how are you supposed to know it when it arrives? How are you supposed to recognise it from the random life?

The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.

Her body moved with the frankness that comes from solitary habits. But solitude is only a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfo…

What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.