“Explosions and fighting robots and shit. Whats that got to do with the heart?”

“The dream knows what they are waiting for, even if they dont themselves.The end of everything.The moment when it reveals its miracle boy and all the eyes will look and their seeing will be horror a...”

“The original stories are mined out, and all thats left is fools gold.”

“Florrie smiles with unmoderated joy, because she can't see that most people bank their happiness like it's something you might run out of”

“Explosions and fighting robots and shit. What’s that got to do with the heart?”

“The dream knows what they are waiting for, even if they don’t themselves.The end of everything.The moment when it reveals its miracle boy and all the eyes will look and their seeing will be horror ...”

“It was a strange moment, like when you get sad after sex, and it feels like it's too late in the afternoon, even if it's morning, or night, and you turn away from the other person, and they turn aw...”

“Piddle on me, oh joy.Please, let it flow.Let it slide between your legsLike its rose water.”

“Kicks to the legs, they're not very cool. They're brutal.”

“If I ever saw my muse she would be an old woman with a tight bun and spectacles poking me in the middle of the back and growling, "Wake up and write the book!”

“To feed your Muse, then, you should always have been hungry about life since you were a child. If not, it is a little late to start.”

“Laughing in my ear is a muse amused by how I paint her whims on paper with silly words.”

“Sex can be used either for self-affirmation or for self-transcendence either to intensify the ego and consolidate the social persona by some kind of conspicuous embarkation and heroic conquest, or...”

“He didn't know all that much about how the machinery worked anyway. Such knowledge was for specialists. In war, as in love, he was a fearless, happy-go-lucky adventurer.”

“If she did experience sex--or something close to it--in high school, I'm sure it would have been less out of sexual desire or love than literary curiosity.”