Family. A snug kind of word.

Nervous hands as if the fingers were dripping from them like icicles.

Any work of art ... is great when it makes you feel that its creator has dipped into your very heart for his sensation.

Oh - oh, why is it that the members of a family feel privileged to treat one another with a cruelty they would not exhibit to the merest stranger?

A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far.

The maimed bodies aren't the worst. That's the easy way to hate war. The safe way. I - hate it just as much for the maimed souls that stay at home.

Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.