It is, I suppose, the common grief of children at having to protect their parents from reality. It is bitter for the young to see what awful innocenc….

I know if I were in your generation I would be really tired of seeing Sophia Loren as a sex object..

I do not plan any painting, but begin with layers of textures and colors. As I layer the colors, something is suggested to me from within, and that i….

Suddenly the staggering love bursts away from me like milk from a smashed glass..

And while national military forces have historically resisted the full participation of women soldiers, female talent has found plenty of scope in re….

I have been a believer in the magic of language since, at a very early age, I discovered that some words got me into trouble and others got me out..

He must love me, i thought, amazed. A faint whiff of nausea hit me at seeing pain as proof of love, but it seemed true. Unavoidable..

[I] am reading No Ordinary Joes. Should have had a medical checkup before I started it. Colton makes us fall in love with these guys, then puts our h….

There are the those whose own vulgar normality is so apparent and stultifying that they strive to escape it. They affect flamboyant behaviour and cla….

Every doorway, every intersection has a story..

It goes in streaks. But some things never go out of fashion.' Hunger artists, fat folks, giants, and dog acts come and go but real freaks never lose ….

Perhaps the strongest evidence that women have as broad and deep a capacity for physical aggression as men is anecdotal. And as with men, this capaci….

I get glimpses of the horror of normalcy. Each of these innocents on the street is engulfed by a terror of their own ordinariness. They would do anyt….

When your mama was the geek, my dreamlets," Papa would say, "she made the nipping off of noggins such a crystal mystery that the hens themselves year….

I remember, in hot floods, the way he slept, still as death, with his face washed flat, stony as a carved tomb and exquisite. His weakness and his ra….

I come from a family of great readers and storytellers..

How deep and sticky is the darkness of childhood, how rigid the blades of infant evil, which is unadulterated, unrestrained by the convenient cushion….

My paintings are reflections of my own inner mysteries... they all reflect my relationship to my steadiest of companions and muses - nature and anima….

Asked why they wanted to fight, the young women said they enjoyed it, just as some men and boys do..

A carnival in daylight is an unfinished beast, anyway. Rain makes it a ghost. The wheezing music from the empty, motionless rides in a soggy, rained-….

Prior to penicillin and medical research, death was an everyday occurrence. It was intimate..