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From the time I began to read, as a child, I loved to feel their heft in my hand and the warm spot caused by their intimate weight in my lap; I loved ...more

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NexusI wrote stubbornly into the evening.At the window, a giant praying mantisrubbed his monkey wrench head against the glass,begging vacantly with pa...more

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The First BookOpen it.Go ahead, it won't bite.Well. . . maybe a little.More a nip, like. A tingle.It's pleasurable, really.You see, it keeps on openin...more

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don't think you can ever forget her don't even try she's not going to budgeno choice but to grant her spacecrown her with skyfor she is one of the man...more

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Women invented misery, but we don't understand it.

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Against Self-PityIt gets you nowhere but deeper intoyour own shit--pure misery a luxuryone never learns to enjoy.

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I've never stopped wanting to cross the equator, or touch an

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Our situation is intolerable, but what's worseis to sit here and do nothing.

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Since she's discoveredmen would rather drownthan nibble,she does just fine.