I decided I like that mode. It's how I think - it's my voice. I like being funny and sad at the same time, or funny and disturbing at the same time. …

- Deb Olin Unferth

Howard's enchanting Hospice obeys its own magical inner logic with excellent prose and a sadness that will split open hearts. You have in your hands …

- Deb Olin Unferth

I want to be funny. When I first started writing, I didn't find my stories funny, but people kept saying they were. It kind of worried me; these are …

- Deb Olin Unferth

You know how it is to want something. Desire builds like a little house in your head and it sits there, half-constructed in your mind. Women who want…

- Deb Olin Unferth

It takes bravery to care for someone — no matter who he is or what made him, whether he is weak or walking or jumping out of windows. The risk involv…

- Deb Olin Unferth

Humans, we just hop out of things, off things. We splatter ourselves in inappropriate places. Because we have nothing to live for. Because we want to…

- Deb Olin Unferth