My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher." - Socrates (470-399 B.C.) "Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't

The aim of my writing is to utterly remove the distance between author and reader so that the book becomes a sort of semipermeable membrane through which feelings, ideas, nutrients pass.

Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.

If you've been a pretty woman and always pursued by lovers, losing that and not having that - it feels like a great loss.

I don't necessarily read everything. I read what I need to read to inspire the book I'm trying to finish.

What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?

I am thinking of the onion again. . . . Not self-righteous like the proletarian potato, nor a siren like the apple. No show-off like the banana. But a modest, self-effacing vegetable, questioning, introspective, peeling itself away, or merely radiating halos like ripples.