Ying-ying, you have tiger eyes. They gather fire in the day. At night they shine golden.

My mother had a very difficult childhood, having seen her own mother kill herself. So she didnt always know how to be the nurturing mother that we all expect we should have.

I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever.

I've always been a magnet for guilt.

You can never be an artist if your work comes without effort. That is the problem with modernink from a bottle. You do not have to think. You simply write what is swimming on the top of your brain. And the top is nothing but pond scum, dead leaves, and mosquito spawn.

I don't steer clear of genres. I simply haven't steered myself toward some of them.

Words are more ardent if a man must struggle to find them.