Laughter may instruct but it may also conceal, defending the joker against anger and retaliation: a game is only a game.

For if the world treats you well, Sir, you come to believe you are deserving of it.

I have periods now, like normal girls; I too am among the knowing, I too can sit out volleyball games and go to the nurse's for aspirin and waddle along the halls with a pad like a flattened rabbit tail wadded between my legs, sopping with liver-colored blood.

I am afraid of falling into hopeless despair, over my wasted life, and I am still not sure how it happened.

All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel.

If you're put on a pedestal, you're supposed to behave yourself like a pedestal type of person. Pedestals actually have a limited circumference. Not much room to move around.

Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges - on gifts, trades, loans - and the revenges and insults that come when they are not paid back.