This is less teaching than damage control. You may as well paint a house that’s on fire.
This is how it is with insomnia. Everything is so far away, a copy of a copy of a copy. The insomnia distance of everything, you can't touch anything and nothing can touch you.
This is a terrible way to travel. I go to meetings my boss doesn't want to attend. I take notes. I'll get back to you.
They assume she was once gorgeously beautiful. Because now she looks so—bad.
These old people. These human ruins.
These distraction-oholics. These focus-ophobics. Old George Orwell got it backward. Big Brother isn't watching. He's singing and dancing. He's pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother's holding your...
These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead.
There's nothing special in the world. Nothing magic. Just physics.
There will be mistakes, and maybe the point is not to forget the rest of yourself if one little part might go bad.
There was no real sense of life because she had nothing to contrast it with.
There isn't any real you in you, she says, Even your physical body, all your cells will be replaced within eight years.
There is nothing special in the world. nothing magic. just physics.
There are a lot of things we don't want to know about the people we love.
Then since the autopilot will have it trimmed out to fly in a straight line, the glider will begin what the pilot calls a controlled descent. That kind of a descent, I tell him, would be nice for a ch...
Then I thought, a sex change, she says, a sexual reassignment surgery [...] It was just the biggest mistake I could make. The biggest challenge I could give myself. She says, You have to jump into dis...
The whole island was exactly what a kid growing up in some trailer park--say some dump like Tecumseh Lake, Georgia--would dream about. This kid would turn out all the lights in the trailer while her m...
The weather today is partly angry, leading to resignation and ultimatums.
The way to get a babe to act in a blue movie is you offer her a million dollars. The way to get a dude is you just have to ask him.
The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it.
The truth is you can be orphaned again and again.