You needn't die happy when your time comes, but you must die satisfied, for you have lived your life from the beginning to the end and ka is always served.

Dolls with no little girls around to mind them were sort of creepy under any conditions.

Reading takes time, and the glass teat takes too much of it.

Say your name over two hundred times and discover you are no one.

A cat won't curry favor even if it's in their best interests to do so. A cat can't be a hypocrite. If more preachers were like cats, this would be a more religious country.

if you tell yourself the great lie of bad art-that you are in charge-your chance at the truth will be lost. The truth isn't always pretty.

Writers write. That's all it is. It is as simple, and as complex, as that.