“Arrest the meek! Reward the obnoxious!”

“He realized now he was only just beginning to see the full extent to which it was his destiny to follow, to walk blindly into fates he could never understand. In fate there was reward, in turning over one's heart to God there was a magnificence that lay beyond description. At the moment one is sure that all is lost, look at what is gained!”

“I was starting to wonder if I was ready to be a writer, not someone who won prizes, got published and was given the time and space to work, but someone who wrote as a course of life. Maybe writing wouldn't have any rewards. Maybe the salvation I would gain through work would only be emotional and intellectual. Wouldn't that be enough, to be a waitress who found an hour or two hidden in every day to write?”

“All that was missing... was everything else.”

“Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other".”

“Grimspace is a bitch mistress who carries unearthly delight in one hand and a crop in the other.”

“There are shades of warmth from the sweet ember of possibility to the roaring fire that fills your soul.”