We have been shark to one another, but also lifeboat.

Reading ... changes you. You aren't the same person after you've read a particular book as you were before, and you will read the next book, unless both are Harlequin Romances, in a slightly different way.

Wars happen because the ones who start them think they can win.

and each of his voices left his body in a different colored soul and floated up towards the sun still singing.

Thy only authentic ending is the one provided here: John and Mary die, John and Mary die, John and Mary die.

All fathers are invisible in daytime; daytime is ruled by mothers and fathers come out at night. Darkness brings home fathers, with their real, unspeakable power. There is more to fathers than meets the eye.

Eating is our earliest metaphor, preceding our consciousness of gender difference, race, nationality, and language. We eat before we talk.