Eva was only a slut. She never had the requisite motivation to be anything so useful or lucrative as a whore. - Caitlín R. Kiernan

No one ever said you have to be dead and buried to be a ghost. Or if they did, they were wrong.

I’d give a hundred bucks for a shot of rye whiskey, he thinks, and swallows hard. I’d give a million to blow her fucking brains out.

I pondered exactly how future biographers would go about writing the biographies of authors without letters. It's not like email and "chat" and whatnot will fill the void. Online journals help a little, but they are not, generally, the truly honest sorts of things that letters were, and only a few authors keep them. I tried for years to keep up letter writing, but was defeated in the end by too many unreliable correspondents.