Like most qualities, cuteness is delineated by what it isn't. Most people aren't cute at all, or if so they quickly outgrow their cuteness ... Elegance, grace, delicacy, beauty, and a lack of self-consciousness: a creature who knows he is cute soon isn't.

in the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen

I miss you so much your absence causes me, at times, accute pain. I don't mean sexually. I mean in connection with my writing.

If I had my way we'd sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.

Victimless crimes are the lifeline of the RIGHT virus. And there is a growing recognition, even in official quarters, that victimless crimes should be removed from the books or subject to minimal penalties.

All abilities are paid for with disabilities. perfect health may entail the heavy toll of bovine stupidity. insight into one area involves blind spots in another.

America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The evil is there waiting.