"About the accident itself I can say very little. Almost nothing. It involved something falling from the sky. Technolo…"

"Surplus matter. I'd forgotten all about that phrase, those classes—even before the accident, I mean. After the accide…"

"Forensic procedure is an art form, nothing less. No, I'll go further: it's higher, more refined, than any art form. W…"

"People never stop to think about these basic facts when they watch wars and cop shows on the television. People take …"

"In the part of the night where it's quietest, around three or four o'clock, I started wondering where this black man'…"

"It was like a quilt, a handmade, patterned quilt laid out for this man to take his final steps across and then lie do…"

"Poor Naz. He wanted everything to be perfect, neat, wanted all matter organized and filed away so that it wasn't mess…"

"I never really had any aspirations to be an actor when I was young. I wanted to play the piano in a bar, to be the ol…"

"If I do decide one day to stop acting, I just hate the idea of people going: 'Oh, did you ever do anything else besid…"

"I don't really know how to act, I kind of wanted to somehow make it real, and one of the ways I've always thought mak…"