Our games of baseball — already lethargic affairs — would grind to a half as soon as the ball rolled near a perennial border. - Alison Bechdel

Although I'm good at enumerating my father's flaws, it's hard for me to sustain much anger at him. I expect this is partly because he's dead, and partly because the bar is lower for fathers than for mothers.

Clarice: To most people, it's obvious that the Whitewater allegations and the sexual harassment suit are politically motivated. And everyone else is too jaded to care if Bill fucks his cat.
Raffi: Fucks!
Toni: Do you want the honor of recording that under "Baby's first word," or shall I?

I am not ultimately interested in writing fiction. I can't make things up. Or rather, I can only make things up about things that have already happened.