“Often when things are put on the 'back burner' the gas goes out.”
“It's gonna be the scene of a homicide if you don't put bitchy on the back burner”
“When the wine goes in, strange things come out.”
“But a knife ain't just a thing, is it? It's a choice, it's something you do. A knife says yes or no, cut or not, die or don't. A knife takes a decision out of your hand and puts it in the world and it never goes back again. ”
“I haven't any language weak enough to depict the weakness of my spiritual life. If I weakened it enough it would cease to be language at all. As when you try to turn the gas-ring a little lower still, and it merely goes out.”
“You know you're putting a good thing out into the universe when you put on glitter.”