A short story is something that you can hold in your mind. You can really analyze how the entire thing works, like a machine

That's what I love about fire, how it would kill me as quick as anybody else. How it can't know I'm its mother. It's so beautiful and powerful and beyond feeling anything for anybody, that's what I love about fire.

No fear. No distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide.

Stop trying to control everything and just let go! LET GO!

Tyler and me at the edge of the roof, the gun in my mouth, I'm wondering how clean this gun is.

Women are already born so far ahead ability-wise. The day men can give birth, that's when we can start talking about equal rights.

Nobody's told me anything to date that I've been completely reviled by.