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Art should never be a slave to commerce, but for all working artists that's exactly what it must be.

That's another sort of being haunted: starting something and never finishing it.

A phenomenon that might seem only backwards or silly when expressed at a social level becomes madness at the individual level.

All too infrequently do I encounter a new voice as delightful, compelling, and intelligent as that of Molly Tanzer.

I could never stand to be a writer. Not a real writer. It's entirely too awful, having thoughts that refuse to become sentences.

Some stories don't have endings," she says. "In some stories, there aren't even answers.

... but that was a long time ago, a long story everyone's tired of repeating, or a short story simply not worth repeating again.

No one ever said you have to be dead and buried to be a ghost.

Magick may be no more than the willful invocation of awe.

The divine is always abominable.
Houses Under The Sea

Too often, it occurs to him that he's lived just long enough to have completely outlived the world that made sense to him, the world where he fit. He

No sound here but the river lapping hungry at the edge of the forest, the sigh of the wind in the leaves and the rasping drone of insects.

Originality is the most deadly mirage in all of art. You can chase it from now until doomsday, and you'll only find yourself lost and dying of thirst.

Normal is a bitter pill that we rail against.

Ghosts are those memories that are too strong to be forgotten for good, echoing across the years and refusing to be obliterated by time.

Eva was only a slut. She never had the requisite motivation to be anything so useful or lucrative as a whore.

You love someone. You don't leave her to drown. And you don't tell her she's crazier than she already knows that she is!

I am a dead woman. Dead and insane.

Language is a poor enough means of communication as it is. So we should use all the words we have.

So, here are my windows, stained all with me.

I realize how arrogant it is to claim I can sort what is relevant from what is irrelevant.

Writing makes it even harder than concrete. Writing makes it hard as diamond.

What makes us brave isn't lacking the good sence to be afraid; it's looking back at what we've lived through and seeing if we've faced it well.

No strings attached," Constance said again. "Oh, there are always strings," I replied. "Whether we put them there or not.

I loved this place when I was a kid. I still love it, but when I was a kid I'd take the bus down here and spend all day long reading in this room.

Assassination is almost always unthinkable to moral, thinking men until after a holocaust has come and gone.

I know the ugly faces the moon makes when it thinks no one is watching.

A book may only be judged for what it is, not what you'd like it to be.

I am usually at my most brutally forthright when making shit up. That's the paradox of me.