You own a dog with the knowledge that it will move through the stages of existence in fast forward, providing you with a lesson about your own life passages if you let it.

There are a thousand things to hear about, informationally, daily, but the thing that doesn't go away is the one to pay attention to.

Readers will share in the environs of the author and her characters, be taken into the hardship of a pitiless place and emerge on the other side — wiser, warier and weathered like the landscape.

Is not Justice just a nice way to say revenge.

Melissa Pritchard's prose, that darkly lyrical firmament, is brightened by the dizzy luminous arrangement of her stars and satellites, her great gifts to us: humor, irony, kindness, brilliance.

Even if it's meaningless . . . sometimes, nice things happen.

When you are mad, mad like this, you don't know it. Reality is what you see. When what you see shifts, departing from anyone else's reality, it's still reality to you.

In an era where Existence is incontestable, Truth is subjective, and Reality is perceived, fiction must mediate between the three.

When I was young, I lived like an old woman, and when I got old, I had to live like a young person.

Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.

The purpose of the pistol is to stop a fight that somebody else has started, almost always at very short range.

I got the boot once from Stanley Donen. The film was called The Little Prince.

My advice for Sebastian Kehl is: if you have a 35-point deficit in the league, it is better to shut up.

Poets are like steam valves, where the ordinary feelings of ordinary people can escape and be shown.

Do not let the artificial obliterate the natural; do not let will obliterate destiny; do not let virtue be sacrificed to fame.