Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can't go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.

Our heaven is their hell, said God. I like a balanced universe.

Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee... I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.

It isn't chic for women to be drunk. Men drunks are more excusable, more easily absolved, but why? It must be thought they have better reasons.

Why does the mind do such things? Turn on us, rend us, dig the claws in. If you get hungry enough, they say, you start eating your own heart. Maybe it's much the same.

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?