The First Sentence Of A Book Is

He Tries To Peel The Image From The Sticky Yellow Backing, To Show Her The Next Time He Sees Her, But It Clings Stubbornly, Refusing To Detach Cleanly From The Past.

Pet Names Are A Persistant Remnant Of Childhood, A Reminder That Life Is Not Always So Serious, So Formal, So Complicated. They Are A Reminder, Too, That One Is Not All Things To All People.

Fiction Is The Only Way I Know A Human Being Can Inhabit The Mind Of Another Human Being.

Sexy Means Loving Someone You Donot Know.

I Wanted To Pull Away From The Things That Marked My Parents As Being Different.