"God is a sort of burglar. As a young man you knock him down; as an old man you try to conciliate him, because he may knock you down."

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We writers, as we work our way deeper into our craft, learn to drop more and more personal clues. Like burglars who secretly wish to be caught, we leave our fingerprints on broken locks, our voiceprints in bugged rooms, our footprints in the wet concrete.

— Ross Macdonald