No, Marla says. No, she wants it all. The cancers, the parasites. Marla’s eyes narrow. She never dreamed she could feel so marvelous. She actually felt alive. Her skin was clearing up. All her life, s...
No matter what happens, it’s always now.
No matter what else you came up against, if you could smile and laugh while a monkey did you with chestnuts in a dank concrete basement while somebody took pictures, well, any other situation would be...
No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you r...
Neddy Nelson: Have you read that Kissinger report he's supposed to have submitted to the National Security Council in 1974? The one where Henry Kissinger warns that the greatest threat to the future o...
My parents meant well, but the road to Hell is paved with publicity stunts.
My father never went to college so it was really important I go to college. After college, I called him long distance and said, now what?My dad didn't know.When I got a job and turned twenty-five, lon...
Music is crucial... Let's say you're southbound on the interstate, cruising along in the middle lane, listening to AM radio. Up alongside comes a tractor trailer of logs or concrete pipe, a tie-down s...
More and more, for the stupid little kid, that was the idea . . .That if enough people looked at you, you’d never need anybody’s attention ever again.That if someday you were caught, exposed, and reve...
Miss Rona says nothing is gross. Miss Rona says the only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.
May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect.
May I never be complete.
Just for the record, waking up on drugs with your pubic hair shaved and something plastic stuck in your vagina doesn't necessarily make you a real artist.
Just for the record, she still loves you. She wouldn't bother to torture you if she didn't.
Jump to how life was when you were a baby and you could only eat baby food. You’d stagger over to the coffee table. You’re up on your feet and you have to keep waddling along on those Vienna sausage l...
Jump to another weird sick disappointment just coming over the horizon.
I’ve met God across his long walnut desk with his diplomas hanging on the wall behind him, and God asks me, Why?Why did I cause so much pain?Didn’t I realize that each of us is a sacred, unique snowfl...
It’s so obvious he’s trying to pass as a normal happy person.
It's the martyrdom of Saint Me.
It's so quiet this high up, the feeling you get is that you're one of those space monkeys. You do the little job you're trained to do. Pull a lever. Push a button. You don't understand any of it, and...