Diane Williams > Quotes

“It is easy to forget, not that we ever should, that everything in this world is an accident, including the origin of life itself, plus the accumulation of riches. We should show more respect for nature, not less. An accident isn't necessarily ever over.

"Scratching The Head”
― Diane Williams, Some Sexual Success Stories Plus Other Stories in Which God Might Choose to Appear

“I should look like someone I would want to see.”
― Diane Williams, Romancer Erector

“And for the rest of her life, the girl, the woman, she never made a mark on anyone either that proved anything absolutely for certain, that she could ever see, about what she had done at any time, and this does not break her heart.

"Cloud”
― Diane Williams

“Keep in mind, we are past the age of enlightenment. This is past reason. We are pretty deep into modern history and the decline of religion. This is when nature itself has been stripped bare of its cozy personality and we all feel homeless in our natures as well.

"The Limits Of The World”
― Diane Williams, Some Sexual Success Stories Plus Other Stories in Which God Might Choose to Appear

“To learn more about them, people should use you. ”
― Diane Williams, The Stupefaction: stories and a novella

“Rather, it is from the blather, rather, I am made.”
― Diane Williams, Romancer Erector

“Her future will have been brought to a sad end if it is not incessantly, daily decorated.”
― Diane Williams, Romancer Erector

“My husband said to me while I was swooning in his arms, 'Why are all the longest dances the draggiest?'

I took this to mean that he has not loved me for a very long time. Everything means something, or it does not. I have expressed an opinion. Every effect has a source that is not unfamiliar. It's all so evil.

("The Uncanny")”
― Diane Williams

“I have to put the worst of her into her.”
― Diane Williams, Romancer Erector

“The cyclist hit me, and it's vile after my life ends in the afterlife. Lots of incense, resin, apes and giraffe-tails--all acquired tastes. I don't like that kind of thing.”
― Diane Williams

“He said 'That! Put that in your purse! I don't like that!' when I took off my brassiere. It remained there, though, curled up on his wooden floor, curled awkwardly for a piece of clothing, not awkwardly if it had been something else perhaps, a creature.

"Idea”
― Diane Williams, Some Sexual Success Stories Plus Other Stories in Which God Might Choose to Appear