Teachers're always using that "in your own words." I hate that. Authors knit their sentences tight. It's their job. Why make us unpick them, just to put it back together more shonkily? How're you s'posed to say Kapellmeister if you can't say Kapellmeister?

Don't remember summer even saying goodbye.

If your words're true, they're armed.

Women, O, women! They'll find the baddest meanin' in your words & hold it up.

If you show someone something you've written, you give them a sharpened stake, lie down in your coffin, and say, ‘When you’re ready’.

Many children are natural fantasists, I think, perhaps because their imaginations have yet to be clobbered into submission by experience.

I'm from a time and place where bigheadedness was a really savage crime, and you'd get cut down for it by your peers and parents.