I lie on the floor, washed by nothing and hanging on. I cry at night. I am afraid of hearing voices, or a voice. I have come to the edge, of the land….

I sometimes felt as if these marks on my body were a kind of code, which blossomed, then faded, like invisible ink held to a candle. But if they were….

Though as he'd say, what is 'belief' but a willingness to suspend the negatives?.

Mary Baker Eddy is said to have had a phone installed in her coffin just in case she happened to wake up. I've been told that's an urban myth. Somebo….

These things sneak up on him for no reason, these flashes of irrational happiness. It's probably a vitamin deficiency..

We want to get there faster. Get where? Wherever we are not. But a human soul can only go as fast as a man can walk, they used to say. In that case, ….

at last you, will say (maybe without speaking) (there are mountains inside your skull garden and chaos, ocean and hurricane; certain corners of rooms….

He was deciding whether to cut her throat or love her forever..

Amazing how the heart clutches at anything familiar, whimpering Mine!Mine!.

How easy it is, treachery. You just slide into it..

[My favorite word is] and. It is so hopeful..

A prison does not only lock its inmates inside, it keeps all others out. Her strongest prison is of her own construction..

We slept in what had once been the gymnasium..

Some of our earliest writing, in cuneiform, was about who owes what..

If I pick up a book with vampires on the cover, I want there to be vampires. If I pick up a book with spaceships on the cover, I want spaceships. If ….

I’m not used to girls, or familiar with their customs. I feel awkward around them, I don’t know what to say. I know the unspoken rules of boys, but w….

Menopause. A pause while you reconsider men..

If one of the arguments against eating meat is to do with cruelty and animal intelligence, then lab meat avoids that. There's also the environmental ….

We all know that a book is not really a person. It isn’t a human being. But if you are a lover of books as books – as objects, that is – and ignore t….

for me the novel is a social vehicle, it reflects society..

Every budding dictatorship begins by muzzling the artists, because they're a mouthy lot and they don't line up and salute very easily..