What's the point of being alive," she said, "if you're not going to communicate?

Each one of us has to be what he or she is.

The little girls were wearing black party dresses and black party shoes, so strangers would know at once how nice they were.

As in my other works of fiction: All persons living and dead are purely coincidental, and should not be construed. No names have been changed to protect the innocent. Angels protect the innocent as a matter of Heavenly routine.

The primary benefit of practicing any art, whether well or badly, is that it enables one's soul to grow.

No matter how wonderful a sentence is, if it doesn't add new and useful information, it should be removed.

Perhaps some people really are born unhappy. I surely hope not. Speaking for my sister and myself: We were born with the capacity and determination to be utterly happy all the time. Perhaps even in this we were freaks. Hi ho.