A snake will always be a snake, even if you put a chain around its neck and try to make it walk upright.

Dying was apparently a weaning process; all the attachments to familiar people and objects have to be undone.

The human organism has only so much energy at its disposal. If you divert a great deal of it into any one channel, you can expect the others to collapse or atrophy. If you squander your vital energies on your emotional life, as you have been doing, plan to be physically and mentally bankrupt, as it were.

The only obvious advantage to being an adult is that you can eat your dessert without haying sampled the vegetables.

A snake will always be a snake, even if you put a chain around its neck and try to make it walk upright.

If you kept moving, you never had to mourn what you were leaving behind.

It had been fourteen years and I hadn't had anything published. I had 250 rejection slips. I got my first novel published and it was called Kinflicks. It turned out to be a best seller.