“I used to have only one name; it used to mean something.”
“Of course, having information to use is one thing. Knowing what it means and how to use it is a differentstory.”
“If you have to pay the bills, and you write something you're not proud of, use a pen-name for that.”
“take words and make them useful,' she told me. 'drain them of all the crappy meanings they used to mean and make them mean something useful instead.”
“Useful thing a warrant. Murder and theft change their names if you have one.”
“Entomologists have a name for young flies, but it is an ugly name, an insult. Let's not use the word "maggot." Let's use a pretty word. Let's use "hacienda.”