We lost money at church bingos and ate catfish deep-fried in lard.
There are three things we cry for in life - things that are lost, things that are found, and things that are magnificent.
It hit him that his own form of loneliness was a luxury, one as chosen and as paid for as three weeks in Kenya's velds or a cherry red Ferrari. Real loneliness wasn't something an assistant scoped out...
I once read that for every person currently alive on earth, there are nineteen dead people who have lived before us. That's not that much really. Our existence as a species on earth has been so short....
His lack of story seemed to be of the which-came-first-the-chicken-or-the-egg variety. For example, he thought that if he learned how to hang-glide, then maybe his life’s story could begin there—an ad...
Es tarde. Hay baloncesto en la tele; revistas de ordenador y fitness por todas partes. Quiero hablar del amor.¿Se acuerda alguien de esa vieja serie El superagente 86? ¿Del principio, cuando Maxwell S...
Dreams don't come true. Dreams die. Dreams get compromised. Dreams end up dealing meth in a booth at the back of the Olive Garden. Dreams choke to death on bay leaves. Dreams get spleen cancer.
Do you remember that old TV series, Get Smart? Do you remember at the beginning where Maxwell Smart is walking down the secret corridor and there are all of those doors that open sideways, and upside...
Beware of the corporate invasion of private memory.
Anti-sabbatical: A job taken with the sole intention of staying only for a limited period of time (often one year). The intention is usually to raise enough funds to partake in another, more personall...
Always keep your mouth shut with a drunk. You can never win with piss tanks. The most you can hope for is to break even.
After my brush with the suicidal impulse, I listen with new ears to others when theyspeak on the subject. I think there are people who were born with that little door open, and theyhave to go through...
A feeling at once destructive, romantic, and grand-like falling into a swimming pool dressed in a tuxedo.
Здесь у всех такой вид, словно они принимают участие в программе защиты и перемещения свидетелей.
Жизнь одинокого человека связана с ритуалом изгнания вакуума из вечеров, проведенных в одиночестве.
And any small moments of intense, flaring beauty such as this morning's will be utterly forgotten, dissolved by time like a super-8 film left out in the rain, without sound, and quickly replaced by th...
After you're dead and buried and floating around whatever place we go to, what's going to be your best memory of earth? What one moment for you defines what it's like to be alive on this planet. What'...
It's around midnight. After I left Dad, my choice was to either become very drunk or write this. Ichose to write this. It felt kind of now-or-never for me.