You are thirty minutes late." "Yes." "Would you be thirty minutes late to a wedding or a funeral?" "No." "Why not, pray tell?" "Well, if the funeral was mine I'd have to be on time. If the wedding was mine it would be my funeral.

We are here to laugh at the odds.

They were beautiful nothings

True revolution comes from true revulsion; when things get bad enough the kitten will kill the lion.

I never pump up my vulgarity. I wait for it to arrive in its own terms.

not writing is not good but trying to write when you can't is worse.

terror finally becomes almost bearable but never quite terror creeps like a cat crawls like a cat across my mind