Axiom: you are a sea. Your eye- lids curve over chaos My hands where they touch you, create small inhabited islands soon you will be all earth: a known land, a country.

There's more than one way to skin a cat, my father used to say; it bothered me, I didn't see why they would want to skin a cat even one way.

Being edited is like falling face down into a threshing machine.

As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you're going to be a second-rate artist.

We thought we had such problems. How were we to know we were happy?

Pink is supposed to weaken your enemies, make them go soft on you, which must be why it's used for baby girls. It's a wonder the military hasn't got on to this.

In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.