Short stories consume you faster. They're connected to brevity. With the short story, you are up against mortality. I know how tough they are as a fo….

The whole point is, we can forget. It’s important that we forget some things. Otherwise we’d go round the world carrying a hodload of stuff we just d….

It is important to know the stories and histories of things, even if all we know is that we don't know..

Then I saw her smile so close to my eye that there was nothing to see but the smile and the thought came into my head that I’d never been inside a sm….