Quotation

Some books are supposed to be long, you know? Thank Christ Tolstoy never met you. We'd have that great novel "War and 'Nothing'." === God damn! It's the tip of the iceberg, Tom. -You're giving me the full iceberg. === Pink is never just pink. It's a thousand other things, all profoundly important to him. All variations on his psychological state. Every image and the sound of every word matters. -No, it doesn't. Nonsense. They're vital! -You're losing the plot. Vital! -Well, what did you hear when you fell in love? What did you hear? Clattering? The point is it was all happening inside him. His life changed, no one else in the room noticed anything. -Then make that the point. I hate to see the words go! -Maybe the larger question is this. In a book crowded with great rolling mountains of prose, how is this moment profoundly different? Because it's simple. Unadorned. Like lightning. Standing out in the black sky by its starkness.