God has to remind us this isn't heaven by a long shot, so he increases the radios and lethal flies.

I didn't know what I was doing in New York.

It was like the first time i saw a cadaver. For weeks afterward the cadavers head, or what was left of it - floated up behind my eggs and bacon at breakfast and in the face of Buddy Willard, who was responsible for my seeing it in the first place, and pretty soon I felt as though I were carrying that cadavers head around with me on a string, like some black, noseless balloon stinking of vinegar.

Your body Hurts me as the world hurts God

Mother of otherness, Eat me.

Can a selfish egocentric jealous and unimaginative female write a damn thing worthwhile?

I am afraid of getting older … I am afraid of getting married. Spare me from cooking three meals a day—spare me from the relentless cage of routine and rote. I want to be free…. I want, I want to think, to be omniscient…. I think I would like to call myself ‘The girl who wanted to be God.