Cruelty has never made me smile.
But the paranormal is persuasive; why else does religion persist?
A wise man does not step betwixt the beast and his meat
A single night is stuffed with minutes, but they leak out, one by one.
Valleysmen’d not want to hear, she answered, that human hunger birthed the Civ’lize, but human hunger killed it too. I know it from other tribes offland what I stayed with. Times are you say a person’...
Leaves turned to soil beneath my feet. Thus it is, trees eat themselves.
How improbable must a coincidence be before it's a sign?
Hobbies are for pleasure, but rituals keep you going.
An abyss cannot be crossed in two steps.
A writer flirts with schizophrenia, nurtures synesthesia, and embraces obsessive-compulsive disorder. Your art feeds on you, your soul, and, yes, to a degree, your sanity. Writing novels worth reading...
A sprinkle of last-minute despair gives a soul an agreeably earthy aftertaste.
I asked, how is knowledge found? 'You must learn how to read, little sister,' he said.
You ask a starved man, Gerritszoon says, to drink to a glutton.
Whoever dies with the most stuff wins.
Wars do not combust without warning. They begin as little fires over the horizon. Wars approach. A wise man watches for the smoke, and prepares to vacate the neighborhood just like Ayrs and Jocasta. M...
Perpetual encagement endows any mirage of salvation with credibility.
Me, want to bloody kick this world in the bloody over and over till it bloody that is ten bloody times more bloody important than being .
London darkens the map like England's bowel polyp. There is a whole country up here.
If the affluent cannot afford hope, you cannot expect the destitute to pay for desperation.
I'd love to know how Dad saw me when I was 6. I'd love to know a hundred things. When a parent dies, a filing cabinet full of all the fascinating stuff also ceases to exist. I never imagined how hungr...