Occupation: Novelist Birth: October 24, 1945 Death: May 11, 2016
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….
Just as a snowflakewent on to feed a puddle that filled a stream and then the river, thepumpkin patch is a gathering of molecules from my old goats, ….
I think genetic research is a fascinating and fertile area..
There are parts of Texas where a fly lives 10,000 years and a man can't die soon enough..
The more potent, unasked question is how society at large reacts to eager, voluntary violence by females, and to the growing evidence that women can ….
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-….
This idea that males are physically aggressive and females are not has distinct drawbacks for both sexes..
A true freak cannot be made. A true freak must be born..
Sometimes people go off in a slightly different direction of wanting to be different, of wanting to be special, of wanting to be more, and I think th….
Asked why they wanted to fight, the young women said they enjoyed it, just as some men and boys do..
American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc..
Training of female athletes is so new that the limits of female possibility are still unknown..
Prior to penicillin and medical research, death was an everyday occurrence. It was intimate..
I think that it's really important to go away and come back..
Women who pay their own rent don't have to be nice..
But the animation has become very good, and I think that a movie is not a book, and a book is not a movie..
It is coincidence, I decide, and I am getting old and batty, thinking the universe revolves around me..
Let's just say, the American school of suburban angst is not my cup of tea..
Giving Papa time to think, as Arty put it, was like pumping random rounds into a fireworks factory. The odds favored dramatic results..
But I think everybody should write. I think those people with stories who don't write should be stomped on..
My paintings are reflections of my own inner mysteries... they all reflect my relationship to my steadiest of companions and muses - nature and anima….