"As long as you are breathing you can always be more scared."

"And she waited again at the front door with it open, poised between the maw of the dead and loveless house and the ou…"

": —Is it true?"

"I'm not interested in writing short stories. Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide h…"

"I don't think goodness is something that you learn. If you're left adrift in the world to learn goodness from it, you…"

"Yes, he said. I busted him and he busted me. That's fair, ain't it? The boy was still silent, calmly incredulous. No,…"

"The man sat watching the road, the weedstem twirling in his mouth and the threadthin shadow of it going long and shor…"

"And as he lay there a far crack of lightning went bluely down the sky and bequeathed him in an embryonic bird's first…"

"Don't take in no strangers while I'm gone. She sighed deeply. They ain't a soul in this world but what is a stranger …"

"What discordant vespers do the tinker's goods chime through the long twilight and over the brindled forest road, him …"