I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction - by skipping the parts that bored me. - Jonathan Lethem

Guilt wants to cover all the bases, be everywhere at once, reach into the past to tweak, neaten and repair. Guilt like Tourettic utterance flows uselessly, inelegantly from one helpless human to another, contemptuous of perimeters, doomed to be mistaken or refused on delivery.

Waves, sky, trees, Essrog - I was off the page now, away from the grammar of skyscrapers and pavement.

His recording career spans just a decade: Rude was silenced by drug abuse and domestic tragedy at the end of the '70s.