I don't want my daughter to be educated. I think women should just be decorative.

Sometimes life is merely a matter of coffee and whatever intimacy a cup of coffee affords.

I have always wanted to write a book that ended with the word 'mayonnaise.

In Watermelon Sugar the deeds were done and done again as my life is done in watermelon sugar.

We could see the children's toys here and there, and we saw a game that the children had made themselves out of dirt, deer antlers and abalone shells, but the game was so strange that only children could tell what it was. Perhaps it wasn't a game at all, only the grave of a game.

I'll tell you about it because I am here and you are distant.

If you get hung up on everybody else's hang-ups, then the whole world's going to be nothing more than one huge gallows.