This idea that males are physically aggressive and females are not has distinct drawbacks for both sexes.

They thought to use and shame me but I win out by nature, because a true freak cannot be made. A true freak must be born.

I get glimpses of the horror of normalcy. Each of these innocents on the street is engulfed by a terror of their own ordinariness. They would do anything to be unique.

Oh, of course, I always feel unconfident.

My worst is all out in the open. It makes it necessary for people to tell you about themselves.

But I think everybody should write. I think those people with stories who don't write should be stomped on.

When your mama was the geek, my dreamlets," Papa would say, "she made the nipping off of noggins such a crystal mystery that the hens themselves yearned toward her, waltzing around her, hypnotized with longing.