“It takes more than one kick in the pants to reverse a lifetime of unplanned apathy.”
“Finally, when she was shaking so much that he staggered with the violence of her pleasure, he drove her back against the wall and took her as she stood, careless of the clothes that bunched between them, oblivious to everything but the primitive, driving force that had conquered him far more devastatingly than he had conquered her.”
“There is no gesture more devastating than the back turning away.”
“My father became a mythical figure, more force than man. . .he was a force my mother would use as a threat of wrath and punishment." In "Father Close, Father Far" New California Writing”
“A woman's perfume tells more about her than her handwriting. ”