We only have babies when we're young enough not to know how grim life turns out. Once we really get the full measure of it--we're slow learners, we women--we dry up in disgust and sensibly halt production.

Always the bridesmaid , never the bride." Always the godfather, never the god".

The truth isn't a thing of fact or reason. It is simply what everyone agrees on.

...I dabble in causes and effects.

The storm dropped a house on her head.

In the lives of children, pumpkins turn into coaches, mice and rats turn into men. When we grow up, we realize it is far more common for men to turn into rats.

It's the only condition I know. Bitter Love, Loneliness, contempt for corruption, blind hope. It's where I live. A permanent state of bereavement. This is nothing new.