Anything that doesn't fit this mode has been shoved into an area of lesser solemnity called 'genre fiction,' and it is here that the spy thriller and the crime story and the adventure story and the su...
An old walrus-faced waiter attended to me; he had the knack of pouring the coffee and the hot milk from two jugs, held high in the air, and I found this entrancing, as if he were a child's magician. O...
Actually, they took turns trying to avoid being the victims. That's the whole point about war!
All those paintings of women, in art galleries, surprised at private moments. Nymph Sleeping. Susanna and the Elders. Woman bathing, one foot in a tin tub - Renoir, or was it Degas? both, both women p...
I would like to watch you sleeping,which may not happen.I would like to watch you,sleeping. I would like to sleepwith you, to enteryour sleep as its smooth dark waveslides over my head.and walk with y...
For years I wanted to be older and now I am.
The answers you get from literature depend upon the questions you pose.
To take that risk, to offer life and remain alive, open yourself like this and become whole.
nothing is more opaque than absolute transparency. Look--my feet don't hit the marble! Like breath or a balloon, I'm rising, I hover six inches in the air in my blazing swan-egg of light. You think I'...
I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.
We lived in the gaps between the stories
Buttons were made from wood and bone, and the fancier ones from cow horns. These last two materials could be obtained for next to nothing from the several abattoirs in the vicinity, and as for the woo...
[A]nother thing about myths: they gather in and circumscribe their target audience. They make a collection into a collective.
You will flicker in these wordsand in the words of othersfor a while and then go out.Even if I send them,you will never get these letters.Even if I see you again,I will never see you again.
You shouldn’t have forged my handwriting, I said to Laura privately. I couldn’t forge Richard’s. It’s too different from ours. Yours was a lot easier. Handwriting is a personal thing. It’s like steali...
You can wipe your feet on me, twist my motives around all you like, you can dump millstones on my head and drown me in the river, but you can’t get me out of the story. I’m the plot, babe, and don’t e...
Why are you so interested in amoebas?
When you can't tell the difference between your own pleasure and your pain then you're an addict.
What's the difference between vision and a vision? The former relates to something it's assumed you've seen, the latter to something it's assumed you haven't. Language is not always dependable either.
What a moron I was to think you were sweet and innocent, when it turns out you were actually college-educated the whole time!