There are old swordsmen and bold swordsmen. But few old, bold swordsmen.
My father, [was] a mid-level phonecompany manager who treated my mother at best like an incompetent employee. At worst? He never beat her, but his pure, inarticulate fury would fill the house for days...
The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.
Some people take offense like it's a limited time offer.
Whenever I'm with my mother, I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines.
My rage is derived from eyes so sharp they see through the idiocy being passed off as sophistication. Under the cloak of universal themes and terms such as freedom, change, and acceptance, madness ens...
Tisiphone stood silent and helpless in Alicia's mind. It was all she could do to keep Alicia's blind savagery from dragging Megaira under and clouding the lightning-fast reflexes which kept them both...
Oh, I'm starting to cry again. That's what happens when you think about life being fair. And I can't explain why it isn't . . . I don't think it's something anybody knows.
The finest fury is the most controlled.
You can’t imagine the white-hot fury someone who can’t sleep has toward the beautiful dreamer beside him.
Anger was better than feeling nothing; because anger and hatred were the long-lasting fuel in the endless dark of my despair. The same way that music had kept me from breaking.