Listen, I say, pushing my chair in. I just want everyone to know that I'm pro-family and anti-drug. Excuse me.
In the movie I was played by an actor who actually looked more like me than the character the author portrayed in the book: I wasn't blond, I wasn't tan, and neither was the actor. I also suddenly bec...
Hip, I murmur, remembering last night, how I lost it completely in a stall at Nell's---my mouth foaming, all I could think about were insects, lots of insects, and running at pigeons, foaming at the m...
Here’s the dead end of social media: after you’ve created your own bubble that reflects only what you relate to or what you identify with, after you’ve blocked and unfollowed people whose opinions and...
Disintegration---I'm taking it in stride.
Disappear here.
Confusion and hopelessness don't necessarily cause a person to act.
But this was what happened when you didn't want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visiting and confronting you.
Baby, when you were young and your heart was an open book, you used to say live and let live. You know you did, you know you did, you know you did.
Yes. Yes I am. I am a completely demented misogynist.
But I don't want to wear a condom because I don't feel anything, and she says calmly... glaring at me,If you don't use one you're not going to feel anything anyway.
While taking a piss in the men's room, I stare into a thin, web-like crack above the urinal's handle and think to myself that if I were to disappear into that crack, say somehow miniaturize and slip i...
What you need is a chick from Camden,' Van Patten says, after recovering from McDermott's statement.Oh great,' I say. 'Some chick who thinks it's okay to fuck her brother.'Yeah, but they think AIDS is...
These questions are punctuated by other questions, as diverse as Will I ever do time? and Did this girl have a trusting heart? The smell of meat and blood clouds up the condo until I don't notice it a...
The horror of 9/11 represented the end of Empire, a shock that moved us out of the twentieth century’s binary Cold War thinking (The center will not hold) and into a world where there was, and is, no...
The conversation follows its own rolling accord - no real structure or topic or internal logic or feeling; except, of course, for its own hidden, conspiratorial one. Just words, and like in a movie, b...
So… Kimball looks at his book helplessly. There’s nothing you can tell me about Paul Owen?Well. I sigh. He led what I suppose was an orderly life, I guess. Really stumped, I offer, He… ate a balanced...
Some people at the party, she adds, are freaks, then mentions a drug I've never heard of, and tells me a story that involves ski masks, zombies, a van, chains, a secret community, and asks me about a...
Siempre existe la posibilidad de que ocurra algo aterrador, y normalmente ocurre.
Open the hood of a car and it will tell you something about the people who designed it, is just one of many phrases I’m tortured by.