It is a singular reaction, this sitting still and writing, writing, writing, or ruminating at length, which is much the same, really.

Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.

And the rest is rust and stardust.

Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.

Mind you, sometimes the angels smoke, hiding it with their sleeves, and when the archangel comes, they throw the cigarettes away: that’s when you get shooting stars.

Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.

Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.

The writer's job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw rocks at them.

There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.

I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.

Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness.

I thought it was love. No, it wasn't. It was marriage

Hope is a fruit of proven character.

Relationship is thus always slavery of a kind, which leaves a residue of guilt.

To Sorrow I bade good-morrow And thought to leave her far away behind But cheerly cheerly She loves me dearly: She is so constant to me and so kind.

We need more drag king role models for all those interested in the art

Our destinies are our own, if we have the courage to take control of them.

Drawing architecture is a "schizoid" act: it involves reducing the world to a piece of paper.

I've been taking batting practice in my barn where nobody can see me, so I may be better than anyone thinks.

A Fed loan to Lehman Brothers would not have prevented a bankruptcy.

Genre labels are useful only insofar as they help you find an audience.