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

I wrote for twelve years and collected 250 rejection slips before getting any fiction published, so I guess outside reinforcement isn't all that important to me.

That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

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

What a surprise to find you could shift the contents of your head like rearranging furniture in a room.

Just as you began to feel that you could make good use of time, there was no time left to you.

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