Publishers are in business to make money, and if your books do well they don't care if you are male, female, or an elephant.

If a god showed up every time you put a quarter in the prayer slot it wouldn't be God, it would be a puppet that you could control by doing that...that would make the deity subservient to you. So it wouldn't be a deity would it?

I'm working on my own life story. I don't mean I'm putting it together; no, I'm taking it apart.

Old lovers go the way of old photographs, bleaching out gradually as in a slow bath of acid: first the moles and pimples, then the shadings. Then the faces themselves, until nothing remains but the general outlines.

it's doors I'm afraid of because I can't see through them, its the door opening by itself in the wind I'm afraid of.

Toast is me. I am toast.

The farther north you go, the fewer fruits and vegetables there are. What kind of apple trees do you suggest the Inuit get their apples from? And how much oil is expended transporting such things out there? It's an equation.