“I want to give a beautiful speech at the end of the world - a rousing and inspiring collection of thoughts expressed eloquently through a dying language that is ultimately too little too late; absurd and utterly meaningless - almost insulting as life burns away.”
Source: I Am the Fire That Flares Up Again
“Silent, scarlet picking though this grand new year, an optimistic premise promised with sickening cheer. So please, pull up a chair and take a stand for all grand intentions. List your resolutions then kindly re-arrange them. Departmentalize your wicked, wonton ways - tell me all about yourself, but spend the most time on the things you hate. Pull out all your in-efficacious and ridiculous disguises; put on a simple act but perform it with abandon. Put your heart and your soul into the fire. Burn your thoughts before you think them, burn them up and take their stink in.”
Source: I Am the Fire That Flares Up Again
“A small ground, some burnt woods, a building – the last place for everyone”
Source: Finding and other stories
“Anders burst our laughing. He covered his mouth with both hands and said, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry," then snorted helplessly through his fingers and said, " Capiche - oh, God, capiche," and at that...”
Source: Bullet in the Brain
“For a faster life: make more phone calls.”
Source: Thick, Thin, What The Dragon Let In: Stories, Rhymes, and Reveries
“What if the universe is expanding because when you die, or anyone or anything dies, they become a star?”
Source: Thick, Thin, What The Dragon Let In: Stories, Rhymes, and Reveries
“If you would like to know more about me look to the pages of my books and you'll find me in between the lines.”
“I blew into L.A. streaking down the freeway, the song "L.A. Woman" blasting out of the car speakers, the wind in my hair, the music in the wind. The first thing you notice about L.A. is that it’s overflowing with people, tourists, the homeless, the starstruck, it was like an old fashioned boom town, a few ghosts wandered it’s streets but it was still booming, if L.A. lived off the people that were successful, the city would be awfully empty.”
Source: The Last Stage
“His long limbs propelled his body in Daphne's direction and she willed her knees not to buckle like a fainting Victorian heiress....
His smile almost took her out. Daphne tried to remember how humans breathed air -- inhale, exhale.”
Source: History Lessons
“Isatai started chanting, drums pounding, the rhythm gathered and met the beat of their hearts, and that sound matched their thoughts. It was one sound they could hear, then they felt a deep pounding of hooves vibrating through their bodies. As they stared into the fire they saw the face of a great buffalo, its mane, flame. It grew in their eyes, engulfing them in its spirit, the vision raced through their hearts like an engine.”
Source: The Captured Dead