If you happen to capture my imagination for some reason and I decide to write about you and you don't like what I wrote about you, which is entirely possible, then yes, I'm a dangerous writer.

Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.

Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy.

we don't belong to each other: he's an independent, and so am I.

I don't want to own anything until I find a place where me and things go together.

We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.

Everybody has to feel superior to somebody," she said. "But it's customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege.