There’s a short circuit between my brain and my tongue, thus Leave me the fuck alone comes out as Well, maybe. Sure. I guess I can see your point. This,
There’s a short circuit between my brain and my tongue, thus Leave me the fuck alone comes out as Well, maybe. Sure. I guess I can see your point.
There’s a lot I don’t tell my father when he calls asking after Amy. He wouldn’t understand that she has no interest in getting married and was, in fact, quite happy to break up with her live-in boyfr...
There are things you forget naturally-computer passwords, your father's continuing relationship with life-and then there are things you can't forget that you wish you could.
The dialogue fills the auditorium like an unrefrigerated boxcar of month-old steaks.
The Korean man nodded, the way you do when you’re a foreigner and understand that someone has finished a sentence.
That's the thing with a diary, though. In order to record your life, you sort of need to live it. Not at your desk, but beyond it. Out in the world where it's so beautiful and complex and painful that...
Such movies are always a danger...falling in love is something most adults have actually experienced...The theme is universal and encourages...unhealthy comparisons...why can't our lives be like that?...
Standing in a two-hour line makes people worry that they're not living in a democratic nation. People stand in line for two houres and they go over the edge.
Six months earlier, my ice breaker concerned a stripper who became a quadriplegic and eventually had her vagina eaten away by bedsores, not the easiest thing to wrangle into a conversation. But if I c...
She lit a cigarette and spent a moment identifying with the smoldering match.
She hit bottom when she physically attacked a deaf-mute. This was a boy of fourteen, a beloved neighborhood figure who delivered for the nearby deli.
September 12, 2001 Paris Last night on TV I watched people jump from the windows of the World Trade Center.
Remember that the most important thing is to try and love other people as much as they love you.
People who have nothing to prove offer practical baby gifts: sturdy cotton rompers made to withstand the cycle of vomit and regular washing. People who are competing for the titles of best-loved aunts...
It’s so hard to predict which friends will last and which will fade away. Quite often I’d move and lose half the contacts in my address book, people I thought would be with me forever. It’s not that w...
It made no sense naturewise—owls and songbirds work different shifts, and even if they didn’t they would still never be friends.
In the last month of the presidential campaign, I tuned in to conservative talk radio and listened as callers considered the unthinkable. One after another, they all threatened the same thing: If McCa...
In other parts of the country people tried to stay together for the sake of the children. In New York they tried to work things out for the sake of the apartment.
In his work shirt and underpants, he looked powerful but also cartoonish, like a bear dressed up for a job interview.