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 you're young it's easy to believe that such a opportunity will come again, maybe even a better one.
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...
Yes, I am talking about boat trailers, but also I am dying.
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.
You know you're young when someone asks you for money and you take it as a compliment.
If you’re not cute, you might as well be clever.
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...
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
She was the human equivalent of a storm cloud.
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.
There are only two kinds of flights: ones in which you die and ones in which you do not.
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.
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,
What fantasies are for: they allow you to skip the degradation and head straight to the top.
A person doesn't consciously choose what he focuses on. Those things choose you, and, once they do, nothing, it seems, can shake them.
A person needed savings in order to move, but more than that he needed gumption.
A zoo is a good place to make a spectacle of yourself, as the people around you have creepier, more photogenic things to look at.
After the trial, I watched as another female pathologist collected maggots from a spinal column found in the desert. There was a decomposed head, too, and before leaving work she planned to simmer it...
All I can say is that if it helps to have friends, it helps even more to have friends who are governors!
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