Every night he comes thudding out of sleep drenched in sweat and staring into the dark. Something huge and scaly is twisting away into nothingness. There you are again, he thinks. There you are, old f...
David, I said, no matter what my intentions are, everything I write winds up turning into fiction, including my letters to friends.
The face was no longer bone, but animal - the face of a white wolf. I forbid you nothing. uttered the awful face. You may go anywhere - you may open any door. But, little bird, remember that you must...
The mind was a trap--it was a cage that slammed down over you.
The path to wisdom leads downward, and anyone who decides to take it had better buckle on armor, remember to bring a sword, and get used to the idea that when and if he gets back everyone he talks to...
Sometimes, it seems like sighted people can hardly see anything.
She thought it was too bad it didn’t work the other way around, so you could get braver and smarter as you move up in years. But
She tasted what she had said and found it sour enough to be accurate.
The day was a long bolt of gray cloth; endless.
The world is full of ghosts, and some of them are still people.
God, in the orthodox view, causes famine, plague, and flood. Was God evil? Evil is a convenient fiction.
He was particularly disgruntled to see what he had taken for a bundle of old rags on the tracks outside was a human body. He did not say Not again (what he said was Shit on this), but Not again was wh...
Wolf! Right here and now!
Privilege encased them, surrounded them like armor. In the cast of their faces was the assumption that they would never have to take anything very seriously. For the first time in my life I saw the tr...
You'll never get anything done if you walk around with an unchipped heart.
And rising extremely unlike Phoebus with the dawn to prepare the schoolhouse.
It seemed that if you listened to that snow hissing long enough, you wouldn’t just hear it telling you that it was waiting for you, you’d hear some terrible secret—a secret to turn your life black.
Another writer once asked me why I wrote about nebbishes. I told him I wanted to write about the common man.) Sometimes I even
The wizard stirs, opens his eyes, and looks at the reluctant boy. Oh, you’ll get your heart broken, he says. Is that what you’re waiting to hear? It’ll be broken, all right. But you'll never get anyth...
She thought, instead, with longing of more books—of buying books—of slipping into a narrative of other people’s lives. That was release.
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