Life has always been a matter of putting one's feet down carefully

Short stories do not say this happened and this happened and this happened. They are a microcosm and a magnification rather than a linear progression.

Here's the thing. I hate kids. Always have. I mean, I know the job of the race, biologically speaking, is to achieve immortality through reproduction, but the idea of getting impregnated and blowing up like a balloon as I serve as a carrier and service unit for this other person who will eventually burst out of me in the most terrifying way imaginable, then carry on using me one way or another for the rest of my life, is right up there with throwing myself off the top of a twenty-story building. If I have a biological clock, it is digital and does not tick.

Sometimes success demands a certain refined insanity.

You are born with the yearning arrow, my Glynna, though you are not yet fully aware of it. It is not a happy thing to possess, for nothing on earth - no goal, no person how ever beloved - will answer it. It points to the sky and to the heavens and the stars and when it cannot reach them, it must fall back to pierce your heart.

Only humans think death is evil. But it is nature. Evil exist's only in life. There is much good and evil alloted to each life.

Laughter is a powerful weapon for it carries the light. To laugh is to defy the darkness.