I'm not going anywhere, " she told me that night. But until we are old ladies--a cypress age, a Sawtooth age--I will continue to link arms with her, in public, in private, in a panic of love.

Mothers burning inside the risen suns of their children.

the gravity of wound to fist

All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in., March 9, 1998]

The strongest men who exist are always someone else's strength.

To bracket form and finality out of one's investigations as far as reason allows is a matter of method, but to deny their reality altogether is a matter of metaphysics.

The time when I had desire to go to the United States I didn't have a penny. It was in the middle of the depression, you know. I couldn't get as far as Hoboken at that time.

I do not rebel against my God, I simply do not accept his world.

Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.

My last book was speculative. I just don't quite know what I am doing. But I'll get there. I have a list of things I would love to write.

I found myself compelled, like this weird, shameful compulsion to draw cute animals.

Until she met the exploding statue, Annabeth thought she was prepared for anything.

Then assuredly the world was made, not in time, but simultaneously with time.