We have eyes and we have nervesesWe have tails we have teethYou’ll all get what you deservesesWhen we rise from underneath.

We have teeth and we have tailsWe have tails we have eyesWe were here before you fellWe will be here when you rise.

For some folks death is release, and for others death is an abomination, a terrible thing. But in the end, I’m there for all of them.

It was a survival thing: he didn’t answer back, didn’t say anything about job security for prison guards, debate the nature of repentance, rehabilitation, or rates of recidivism. He didn’t say anything funny or clever,...

So, yeah, my people figured that maybe there’s something at the back of it all, a creator, a great spirit, and so we say thank you to it, because it’s always good to say thank...

God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e. everybody], to being involved...

Silas consumed only one food, and it was not bananas.

People couldn’t become truly holy, he said, unless they also had the opportunity to be definitively wicked.

I’m an author. We don’t want to lead. We don’t need to follow. We stay home and make stuff up and write it down and send it out into the world, and get inside people’s...

Is there a word for forgetting the name of someone when you want to introduce them to someone else at the same time you realize you’ve forgotten the name of the person you’re introducing them...

According to my daughters, my most irritating habit is asking for cups of tea.

Up the narrow stairs and into the kitchen. Rosie’s mother looked around and made a face as if to indicate that it did not meet her standards of hygiene, containing as it did, edible foodstuffs....

Rosies mother was a highly strung bundle of barely thought-through prejudices, worries and feuds.

We are small but we are manyWe are many we are smallWe were here before you roseWe will be here when you fall