When we finish a book, why do we hold it in both hands and gaze at it as if it were somehow alive?

something can only become an illusion after disillusionment. before that, it is something real. what caused the disillusionment? no one told me the print on the wall was just ink and paper and had no life of its own. at some point the cat stopped blinking, and i stopped thinking it could.

I run a tight ship, but I try and make it seem like I'm not doing that at all.

The histories of vampires and people are not so different, really. How many of us can honestly see our own reflection?

If I had had me for a student I would have thrown me out of class immediately.

Cartoonist was the weirdest name I finally let myself have. I would never say it. When I heard it I silently thought, what an awful word.

You may be a lady but you are still the man!