I went on to Cincinnati. I had got a taste of the big cities and them bright lights. I stayed there until I was about 18 or 19 and then I went on to Detroit.

Big cities do evoke a sense of menace.

I'm a big-city boy. What I like is big cities. It's not just what I like. It's what I write about.

She said that certain facts are accessible only from one point of view--the point of view of the creature who experiences them. You think she meant that the only shoes we can ever wear are our own. Meg can’t imagine what it’s like for you to be you, she can only imagine herself being you.

Suffering is supposed to be the raw stuff of art.

Taste is a matter of taste.