Sometimes I am afraid for people like you who have to know things. Your kind will dig and hunt and worry at it until one day you will find what is hi….

Sometimes success demands a certain refined insanity..

That was what happened to laughter when you caged it. It became unbearably sad. It was worse than crying..

‎It is better to pursue a hopeless hope than to give in to black despair..

Life has always been a matter of putting one's feet down carefully.

Here's the thing. I hate kids. Always have. I mean, I know the job of the race, biologically speaking, is to achieve immortality through reproduction….

If she is afraid of mirrors she is afraid of herself..

Only humans think death is evil. But it is nature. Evil exist's only in life. There is much good and evil alloted to each life..

Short stories do not say this happened and this happened and this happened. They are a microcosm and a magnification rather than a linear progression..

She's forgetting,' Ellen said to Jack, plumping herself down on a chair. 'All of her life is leaking out of her. Soon there will be nothing left..

If human lives be, for their very brevity, sweet, then beast lives are sweeter still....

Laughter is a powerful weapon for it carries the light. To laugh is to defy the darkness..

Cracks especially. You have to be careful of the cracks.. Sometimes they are disguised as something else. A doorway, or a smile or even a winking eye….

My heart belongs to you,' He promised. 'Would you have loved me when I was a girl?' 'I have always loved you. Even before I met you I loved the idea ….

Don't you understand that wanting does not belong here, because that is what wounds, and there is never an end to it..

Long fiction is wonderful and you can lose yourself in it as a reader and as a writer, but short stories don't allow the same kind of immersion. Ofte….

Oh yes. It's open all right, but not many people come in here to look at me now so there's no point in selling tickets. No one is interested in a man….

You are born with the yearning arrow, my Glynna, though you are not yet fully aware of it. It is not a happy thing to possess, for nothing on earth -….

My favourite mentor brother told me that there were three kinds of people: followers, leaders and scouts. Scouts are capeable of leadership, but they….

The short story form allows evocation, suggestion, implication. Its potency often lies in what it does not say..

Impatience is not the least of your faults, Malik, it is a kind of greed and someday it may see you undone..