I hated the distance between us. It left me unsettled, unbalanced. Like the good parts of myself were fading.

Never let your education interfere with your learning.

Don't let what you fear stop you from pursuing it. For the most part, what you fear doesn't even know that you are afraid of it.

It was a piece of thoroughly picturesque and proper violence. I like a violent man, really, a man who's a bit of a brute in a decent straightforward way.

God condemns those who oppress and take advantage of others.

We feel that animals have the same rights as retarded human nchild because they are equal mentally in terms of dependence on others.

Come, my pretender, my fritter, my bubbler, my chicken biddy! Oh succulent one, it is but one turn in the road and I would be a cannibal!

This is what being alive feels like, you know? The place doesn't matter. You just live.

Novels are more difficult simply because they are longer and require more juggling, but short stories are closer to perfection, if you can get the language right.

Everyone is part of you.

What is it that you contain? The Dead. Time. Light patterns of millennia. The expanding universe opening in your gut. Are your twenty-three feet of intestines loaded with stars?