The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time.

You might question a winkle - a feeling that came to you right out of the blue - but you didn’t question knowing.

The family exists for many reasons, but its most basic function may be to draw together after a member dies.

No one ever really pays for betrayal in silver....The price of any betrayal always comes due in flesh.

Do you drink?" "Of course,I just said I was a writer.

Might as well try to drink the ocean with a spoon as argue with a lover.

he looked to her like an absurd twentieth-century Hamlet, an indecisive figure so mesmerized by onrushing tragedy that he was helpless to divert its course or alter it in any way.