And I see that not touching for so long was a drive to the beach with the windows rolled up so the waves feel that much colder.
I read about a famous mystery writer who worked for one week in a department store. One day she saw a woman come in and buy a doll. The mystery writer found out the woman’s name, and took a bus to New...
I meet a person, and in my mind I'm saying three minutes; I give you three minutes to show me the spark.
A five-hour flight works out to three days and nights on land, by rail, from sea to shining sea. You can chalk off the hours on the back of the seat ahead. But seventy-some hours will not seem so long...
I get rational when I panic.
Yesterday, where someone had dumped a cat-scratched leather recliner in the weedy empty lot around the corner, an elderly man was found sitting in the chair, quietly disoriented. The recliner looked l...
It is possible to imagine a person so entirely that the image resists attempts to dislodge it.
Here is what you do. You ease yourself into a tub of water, you ease yourself down. You lie back and wait for the ripples to smooth away. Then you take a deep breath, and slide your head under, and li...
He wondered how we know that what happens to us isn't good.
Dreams: the place most of us get what we need.
The other day I was playing Scrabble. I saw that I could close the space in D-E- -Y. I had an N and an F. Which do you think I chose? What was the word I made?
Tell me things I won't mind forgetting, she said. 'Make it useless stuff or skip it.
Look at me. My concerns-are they spiritual, do you think, or carnal? Come on. We've read our Shakespeare.
Just once in my life--oh, when have I ever wanted anything just once in my life?
It’s the natural trajectory of a writing career that a writer becomes better at being herself.
I think it was that love that I loved. That kind of involvement was reassuring; I felt it would extend to me, as well. That it did not or that it did, but only as much and no more, was confusing at fi...
As soon as I knew that I would be all right, I was sure that I was dead and didn't know it. I moved through the days like a severed head that finishes a sentence. I waited for the moment that would sn...
You will stand in line for snacks behind good clothes on bad bodies, behind the man who is so drunk he has lost his shoes, and so belligerent no one will help him find them.
The psychic said I would have two children. This makes me shake my head. I know you are not supposed to leave a baby alone. Not even for a minute. But after a while I think, What could happen to a bab...
I would like to go for a ride with you, have you take me to stand before a river in the dark where hundreds of lightning bugs blink this code in sequence: right here, nowhere else! Right now, never ag...