Too much talking these days. Talk talk talk. This country would get along much better if people learned how to suffer in silence.

She didn't have a daddy?" I asked. "No." "Did you have a daddy?" "You're all questions, aren't you? No, love. We never went in for that sort of thing. You only need men if you want to breed more men.

A library is a place that is a repository of information and gives every citizen equal access to it.

I am fascinated a) by transgressive art and b) what happens beyond the boundaries.

I watched my life as if it were happening to someone else. My son died. And I was hurt, but I watched my hurt, and even relished it, a little, for now I could write a real death, a true loss. My heart was broken by my dark lady, and I wept, in my room, alone; but while I wept, somewhere inside I smiled.

Rain in the graveyard, and the world puddled into blurred reflections.

It doesn't matter that you didn't believe in us," said Mr. Ibis. "We believed in you.