"Art is not merely a decorative enhancement of our lives but a sign of our desire to live in the world fully and hones…"

"Alarms clang as a radarman tracks an attack craft that can jam radar and dart past flak at half a Mach: ack-ack-ack, …"

"Whenever Helen sleeps, her fevered rest meekens her; hence, she re-emerges enfeebled — her strength, expended; her re…"

"Lightning blinks, striking things in its midst with blinding light. Whirlwinds whirl; driftwinds drift. Spindrift is …"

"Loops on bold fonts now form lots of words for books. Books form cocoons of comfort – tombs to hold bookworms. Profs …"

"Duluth dump trucks lurch, pull U-turns. Such trucks dump much undug turf: clunk, clunk — thud. [...] Such pumps suck …"

"I don’t believe that we could exist with one foot in two worlds. We have to be able to synthesize and be part of what…"

"one of the questions that I had in my writing was not so much about how to reorganize the material, but also how to w…"

"As human beings, we have to learn; we have to become knowledgeable enough to be able to accomplish that continuum of …"

"This love that had come to her was a kind of madness. It owned her. It created a wreckage of her body. The way, after…"