I felt white, drained of blood, cared for, purified. Peaceful..

Why is it we want so badly to memorialize ourselves? Even while we're still alive. We wish to assert our existence, like dogs peeing on fire hydrants….

I have a fork and a spoon, but never a knife… as if I’m lacking manual skills or teeth. I have both, however. That’s why I’m not allowed a knife..

Human reason is a pin dancing on the head of an angel, so small is it in comparison to the Divine vastness that encircles us..

Why does the mind do such things? Turn on us, rend us, dig the claws in. If you get hungry enough, they say, you start eating your own heart. Maybe i….

A lot of being a poet consists of willed ignorance. If you woke up from your trance and realized the nature of the life-threatening and dignity-destr….

I would not change [my past work] anymore than I would airbrush a photo of myself..

There's blood, a taste I remember. It tastes of orange popsicles, penny gumballs, red licorice, gnawed hair, dirty ice..

Happy as a clam, is what my mother says for happy. I am happy as a clam: hard-shelled, firmly closed..

Repeat reading for me shares a few things with hot-water bottles and thumbsucking: comfort, familiarity, the recurrence of the expected..

Life's not fair; why should I be?.

He stops, looks up at this window, and I can see the white oblong of his face. We look at each other. I have no rose to toss, he has no lute. But it'….

art happens. It happens when you have the craft and the vocation and are waiting for something else, something extra, or maybe not waiting; in any ca….

The act of making a photograph is less a question of what is being looked at than how..

Is anything wrong, dear? the old joke went. No, why? You moved. Just don't move..

Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets..

When faced with the inevitable, you always have a choice... As I learned during my liberal arts education, any symbol can have, in the imaginative co….

Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the opera - or an NHL game..

When I finally went to school I had to adjust to other girls and learn their fiendish ways. Having learnt them, I turned them on all and sundry..

Why do men feel threatened by women?.

People cry at weddings for the same reason they cry at happy endings: because they so desperately want to believe in something they know is not credi….