No writer, painter, or actor - no artist - is ever handed a sharp knife (although a few people are handed almighty big ones; the name we give to the artist with the big knife is 'genius'), and we hone with varying degrees of zeal and aptitude.

Absence may or may not make the heart grow fonder, but it certainly freshens the eye.

I think part of being a parent is trying to kill your kids.

It's hard enough for a person to keep their own socks pulled up, let alone someone else's.

Lovecraft opened the way for me, as he had done for others before me

And this wasn’t lying, not really. It was leaving out.

For men, I think, love is a thing formed of equal parts lust and astonishment. The astonishment part women understand. The lust part they only think they understand.