I held her wrists and then I got it through the eyes: hatred, centuries deep and true. I was wrong and graceless and sick. all the things I had learned had been wasted. there was no creature living as foul as I and all my poems were false.

Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others. Their fear is only their inability to face what is real, and I can't vent any anger against them. I only feel this appalling sadness. Somewhere, in their upbringing, they were shielded against the total facts of our existence. They were only taught to look one way when many ways exist.

I knew exactly what I was doing: I was doing nothing. because I knew there was nothing to do.

There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.

Fiction is an improvement on life

I'll use the knives for spreading jam, and the gas to warm my greying love.

American women drove hard bargains and the ended up looking the worst for it. The few natural American women left were mostly in Texas and Louisiana.