A person needed savings in order to move, but more than that he needed gumption.
A person doesn't consciously choose what he focuses on. Those things choose you, and, once they do, nothing, it seems, can shake them.
I like the trail that the Internet created. For example, I was watching one of those Douglas Sirk movies, and I noticed that Rock Hudson towered over everyone, and I typed in "How tall was" and I saw...
What fantasies are for: they allow you to skip the degradation and head straight to the top.
Weeks passed, my suitcase grew more and more conventional. I’ve got something for you, I’d say to a teenager. It’s nothing huge,
We flew to Los Angeles, where I secured a new passport. The picture in my stolen one wasn’t half bad, but in the new one I look like a penis with an old person’s face drawn on it.
She was the human equivalent of a storm cloud.
She took pictures of germs, viruses, and people reacting to germs and viruses. On weekends, for extra money, she photographed weddings, which really wasn't that much of a stretch
Never fall asleep in a Dumpster, never underestimate a bee, never drive a convertible behind a flatbed truck, never get old, never get drunk near a train, and never, under any circumstances, cut off y...
If you’re not cute, you might as well be clever.
His voice was high and strange, as if it had been recorded and was now being played back at a faster speed.
A new group, flexitarians, who eat meat if not too many people are watching.
You’re afraid of moths? He nodded yes and winced a little. But nobody’s afraid of moths. I am, he whispered, and he looked behind us, as if afraid that one might be listening.
You know you're young when someone asks you for money and you take it as a compliment.
You kids might think you’re close, but just wait until your father and I are gone, and you’re left to divide up our property.
With practice I will eventually realize my goal; in the meantime, come to Paris and you will find me, headphones plugged tight in my external audio meatus, walking the quays and whispering, 'Has anyth...
When you're young it's easy to believe that such a opportunity will come again, maybe even a better one.
When the week was over, we went to Paris. There are any number of stores there that time seems to have forgotten. At one of them I bought five rubber noses. That’s one for every serial killer I read a...
When it comes time to decide who gets the bottom bunk, I think anyone would agree that there’s a lot to be said for doing things the hard way.
Walking home with the back half of the twelve-foot ladder I turned to look in the direction of Hugh’s loft. 'You will be mine,' I commanded.