“These pigeons seemed to have an inordinate amount of room on their legs.”

“Dreamt all night of horticulture prospects of in northland futures for horticulturalists versedin cut-ups developing new strains new fruitsas for example "tremeloes”

“WHEN I WAS LITTLE, I was so girlie and ambitious, I was practically a drag queen. I wanted to be everything at once: a prima ballerina, an actress, a model, a famous artist, a nurse, an Ice Capades dancer, and Batgirl. I spent inordinate amounts of time waltzing around our living room with a doily on my head, imagining in great detail my promenade down the runway as the new Miss America, during which time I would also happen to receive a Nobel Prize for coloring.”

“Those pigeons couldn't take us out if they send their entire chirping flock.”

“We moved wordlessly from one room to another, from the room of the dead to the room where time lay in pages everywhere I looked.”

“I am an ant in the battlefield of the gods. There's no room for pride or ego, and barely enough room for survival.”

“Each of us carries a room within ourselves, waiting to be furnished and peopled, and if you listen closely, you may need to silence everything in your own room, you can hear the sounds of that other room inside your head.”