Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space.

It doesn't really matter what "genre" your book is. What matters is that it's a good book of its kind. Whatever that kind may be.

By telling you anything at all I'm at least believing in you, believe you're there, I believe you into being. Because I'm telling you this story I will your existence. I tell, therefore you are. So I will go on. So I will myself to go on.

Menopause. A pause while you reconsider men.

There's something to be said for hunger: at least it lets you know you're still alive.

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.

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