“(from: Age Sixty-nine)There is this circle I walkthat I have learned to love.I hope one day to be a spiralbut to the birds I'm a circle.”

“(from: Age Sixty-nine)Often, lately, the night is a cold mawand stars the scattered white teeth of the gods, which spare none of us. At dawn I have birds, clearly divine messengers that I don't understandyet day by day feel the grace of their intentions.”

“I'm hoping to be astonished tomorrowby I don't know what.”

“If you added it up, without her there was nothing--but with her even the simplest of gestures of walking a bird dog in the desert, or selecting the ingredients for a meal for two rather than one took on an ineffable charm.(from the novella, Revenge)”

“Every day I wonder how many things I am dead wrong about. -- True North”

“Strangely, when I totally emerged from this slump I couldn't comprehend how I had almost drowned it it.”

“Isabel saw all their lives becoming history in units of days and nights so fatally private there was no one left for her to love.”