Christopher Moore
Christopher Moore
jobs dirty woven
The fact that 'A Dirty Job' has comedy and supernatural horror in it, that both are woven in and out of it with a whimsical tone, despite the fact that it's about death, makes it hard to characterize with standard genre labels - but I have no problem with that. I'd call it a funny story about death, and leave it at that.
native-american reflection fields
I wanted a trumpet concerto that reflected Native American music because, well, there aren't any. I looked around for one but couldn't find anything. So it's a wide-open field.
angel insects
Angels are just pretty insects.
should-have people moses
Moses should have said "Let my people go. Please.
song writing play
Why write a song when no one can play the notes or understand the lyrics?
action
One can't be free without action.
brother thinking eight
People always stay the age that they died at. My big brother died of leukemia when I was six. He was eight. Now when I think of him, he's always eight, and he's still my big brother. He never changes, and the part of me that remembers him never changes.
reading ifs
If you like what you're reading, I probably wrote it.
eating-disorder cookies stuff
It’s like he has this power over me—like I have an eating disorder and he’s a package of Oreo Double Stuff cookies.
desire faces
Hope is merely another face of desire.
pain heart boys
Little-boy love...the cleanest pain I've ever known. Love without desire, conditions, or limits - a pure and radiant glow in the heart that could make me giddy and sad and glorious all at once. Where does it go? Why, in all their experiments, did the Magi never try to capture that purity in a bottle? Perhaps they couldn't.
people good-people
It's Christmas! Ah, Christmas, the time when all good people go about not decapitating each other.
my-favorite favorite-music laughed
She laughed. My favorite music.
past guilt
Unless you can change the past, you’re wasting the present on this guilt