I giggled out loud at his stupidity. If anyone knew how to make a bed, it was a faggot.
I explained that he was Chinese, and she asked if the movie would be in Chinese. No, I said, he lives in America. In California. He's been there since he was a baby. Then what does it matter if he's C...
He told me that his sister is clinically depressed and read Naked during a month-long visit to a psychiatric hospital. According to him, once she’d finished, she loaned it to a fellow patient, who, in...
For to witness majesty, to find yourself literally touched by it - isn't that what we've all been waiting for?
For the first twenty years of my life, I rocked myself to sleep. It was a harmless enough hobby, but eventually, I had to give it up. Throughout the next twenty-two years I lay still and discovered th...
Every clue was italicized with a burst of surging trumpets, and under questioning, the suspects snapped like toothpicks, buckling in less time than it took to soft-boil an egg.
Cover your glass in France or Germany --even worse, in England - and in the voice of someone who has personally affronted, your host will ask why you're not drinking. 'Oh, I just don't feel like it th...
Also it’s so cold here, too cold to do anything but sit in front of the space heater. Right now I’m wearing long underwear, a flannel shirt, a pajama shirt, a sweater, a jacket, a coat, and a hat. Ins...
Adrienne started teaching a few months ago in Denver and wrote that it leaves you with a constant feeling of deceiving people. That you know nothing they don't, or couldn't learn on their own if they...
But most good movies have a gun in them.
What other people call dark and despairing, I call funny.
There’s only so much you can do for a person who thinks Auschwitz is a brand of beer.
There are only two kinds of flights: ones in which you die and ones in which you do not.
The beauty of an art school: as long as you can pay the tuition, they will never, even in the gentlest way, suggest that you have no talent.
You’re not supposed to talk about your good deeds, I know. It effectively negates them and in the process makes people hate you.
You ever been to Tijuana? he asked. Most of Dupont’s stories began with a question and ended with an insatiable woman, buck naked and begging for more.
When young, the animals were sweet. Then one day they became moody and violent, like human teenagers
When I got back to the apartment, the phone rang. It was Dad, who told me I should try to get work as a model. I told him he was being ridiculous and he said no, he’d just been at the barbershop and s...
Unlike my father, who blindly churned out one canvas after another, I had real ideas about the artistic life. Seated at my desk, my beret as tight as an acorn’s cap, I projected myself into the world...
Trying to explain moral principles to Khe Sahn was like reviewing a standard 1040 tax form with a house cat!