“An empty bus hurtles through the starry nightPerhaps the driver is singingand happy because he sings.”

“They swore by concrete. They built for eternity.”

“When the young womanleans over the sky,about to water the flowers as well as the weeds,her white front splits openuntil her milk runs.”

“Ignore the misery. Custom invites you to ignore the misery."SHOW YOUR TONGUE”

“After the collapse of socialism, capitalism remained without a rival. This unusual situation unleashed its greedy and - above all - its suicidal power. The belief is now that everything - and every...”

“Scared and sacred are spelled with the same letters. Awful proceeds from the same root word as awesome. Terrify and terrific. Every negative experience holds the seed of transformation.”

“Writing is one of the ways I participate in transformation.”

“If the point of life is the same as the point of a story, the point of life is character transformation. If I got any comfort as I set out on my first story, it was that in nearly every story, the ...”

“Those who can't, and can't teach, translate.(attrib: F.L. Vanderson)”