It isn’t easy when life tears away the one person in a million you thought you could always trust.

Human’s aren’t concerned with reality, merely their perceptions of it.

I built them what they wanted and I made a profit off of it. Now they call me a god...What fools these mortals be.

Nice dress, ” Victoria said.“Thank you, ” Perpetua said. “Do you mind if I ask you a personal question?”Victoria blinked. “Uh, what?

Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts

We dont make mistakes. We have happy accidents.

Possession means to sit astride the world Instead of having it astride of you.

I'm absolutely flooded with a raucous energy to get out into the world and tell my story again. I feel like this is spring. After a period of shriveling, out come the leaves.

I am knowledgeable enough about the world of prizes to realize that there is a large degree of luck - both for the recognitions that you receive and those that you did not.

I always had this romantic notion of living in New York. I just felt like, everyone could be different and weird and whatever they are in New York.

I feel like I have to avoid certain thrift store-isms, having been known for the thrift store paintings. It's like I have to not paint that way.

Writing is, after all, a gesture towards other people, giving something to others. And so it's not a completely hermetic exercise. It's really an opening up.

I turned my air conditioner the other way around and it got cold out. The weatherman said 'I don't understand it. It was supposed to be 80 degrees out today.' I said, oops