Beauty is a hard thing. Beauty is a mean story. Beauty is slender girls who die young, fine-featured delicate creatures about whom men write poems. Beauty, my first girlfriend said to me, is that inner quality often associated with great amounts of leisure time. And I loved her for that.

When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels.

Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is the way you can both hate and love something you are not sure you understand.

I don't believe that there is any true friendship without a bond of honor, and the honor in friendship is the respect you give the other that she also gives you.

Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I'd rather go naked than wear the coat the world has made for me.

Babies change things, open doors you thought were shut, close others. Make you into something you never been.

fiction is the great lie that tells the truth