Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside.

Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.

Gravy is the simplest, tastiest, most memory-laden dish I know how to make: a little flour, salt and pepper, crispy bits of whatever meat anchored the meal, a couple of cups of water or milk and slow stirring to break up lumps.

If you just go get one of these little fine arts degrees or writing program degrees, it never forces you to confront your responsibility as narrator, whereas any of the social sciences make you at look the interaction between the storyteller and story.

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

I was born trash in a land where the people all believe themselves natural aristocrats.

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.