I don't draw attention to myself or have security pushing people away.
It is better to pursue a hopeless hope than to give in to black despair.
Short stories do not say this happened and this happened and this happened. They are a microcosm and a magnification rather than a linear progression.
Here's the thing. I hate kids. Always have. I mean, I know the job of the race, biologically speaking, is to achieve immortality through reproduction, but the idea of getting impregnated and blowing up like a balloon as I serve as a carrier and service unit for this other person who will eventually burst out of me in the most terrifying way imaginable, then carry on using me one way or another for the rest of my life, is right up there with throwing myself off the top of a twenty-story building. If I have a biological clock, it is digital and does not tick.
The short story form allows evocation, suggestion, implication. Its potency often lies in what it does not say.
The deepest wounds aren't the ones we get from other people hurting us. They are the wounds we give ourselves when we hurt other people.
Life has always been a matter of putting one's feet down carefully
Every single human being is a unique human being. And, therefore, it's so criminal to do something to that human being, because he or she represents humanity.
I never had to put myself in somebody else's shoes.
Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.
Pain is no longer pain when it is past.