Christianity is merely a system for turning priestesses into handmaidens, queens into concubines, and goddesses into muses.

You know what the game of golf is, don't you? It's basketball for people who can't jump and chess for people who can't think.

This is the room where Jezebel frescoed her eyelids with history's tragic glitter

To some extent, Seattle remains a frontier metropolis, a place where people can experiment with their lives, and change and grow and make things happen.

We're making it up. The world, the universe, life, reality. Especially reality.

we've produced a generation of spiritual panhandlers, begging for coins of wisdom, banging like bums on every closed door...if an old man moves into a shack or a cave and lets his beard grow, people will flock from miles around just to read his "no trespassing" sign

Employing women as my primary protagonists has allowed me to step outside of myself, to distance myself from my own personality, far more easily than were I to look at events from a masculine perspective.