If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life..

Back then I was still appalled that God would set down his barefoot boy and girl dollies into an Eden where, presumably, He had just turned loose ele….

Most of the girls my age, or even younger, have babies. They appear way too young to be married, till you look in their eyes. Then you'll see it. The….

He was getting that look he gets, oh boy, like Here comes Moses tromping down off of Mount Syanide with ten fresh ways to wreck your life..

But the last one: the baby who trails her scent like a flag of surrender through your life when there will be no more coming after - oh, that's love ….

Perhaps growing up meant we put our knives away and feigned ignorance of the damage..

It's as if cats live in a seperate universe that takes up the same space as ours, but is full of facinating things like mice or sparrows or special T….

she's never forgotten, either, how a mystery caught in the hand could lose its grace.

You know things are bad when a woman without any legs and who recently lost two of her own kids feels sorry for you..

A woman without a man -- a condition of 'manlessness' -- is defined as alone. But a single mother is less alone than the average housewife..

Something in me was always watching life from the outside, permanently obsessed with the notion of belonging vs. not-belonging [to a group]. It did n….

You can curse the dead or pray for them, but don't expect them to do a thing for you. They're far too interested in watching us, to see what in heave….

There are some who'd hardly lift a finger for kindness, but they would haul up a load of rock to dump on some soul they think's been too lucky..

Growing food was the first activity that gave us enough prosperity to stay in one place, form complex social groups, tell our stories, and build our ….

Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent..

If my setting is new to a reader, or the concerns of the novel are new, I hope they will learn something about the world. I would like to say that th….

Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happ….

Everyone should get dirt on his hands each day. Doctors, intellectuals. Politicians, most of all. How can we presume to uplift the life of the workin….

A first child is your own best foot forward, and how you do cheer those little feet as they strike out. You examine every turn of flesh for precocity….

Even feigning surprise, pretending it was unexpected and saying a ritual thanks, is surely wiser than just expecting everything so carelessly..

Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals..