He wanted to fly in lightweight contraptions with her.

There is travel and there are babies; everything else is drudgery and death.

We are the bright new stars born of a screaming black hole, the nascent suns burst from the darkness, from the grasping void of space that folds and swallows--a darkness that would devour anyone not as strong as we. We are oddities, sideshows, talk show subjects. We capture everyone's imagination.

Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves.

I publish my own books, so there isn't a certain editor I owe the book to at a publishing house.

But that in any city, in any cluster of people, there a few people who are awake at this hour, who are both awake and dancing, and it’s here that we need to be.

I went to public school all my life and all through college and I liked it.