If you want to know who the oppressed minorities in America are, simply look at who gets their own shelf in the bookstore. A black shelf, a women's shelf, and a gay shelf.

In her opinion, the parrots were annoying arrogant. You could buy the most beautiful one in town, she observed, but that won't make it love you. You could feed it, care for it and exclaim over its loveliness, but there was nothing to guarantee that it would stay home with you. There had to be a lesson in there somewhere.

I'm not sure I even need a lover, male or female. Sometimes I think I'd settle for five good friends.

But I will say that the drugs are much more ferocious then they used to be. There are people wrecking their lives with addiction, which seems much more severe.

I tend to prefer the shelter of fiction.

I consider myself much better adjusted than Gabriel.

Like I've always said, love wouldn't be blind if the braille weren't so damned much fun.