There are some places the mind should not go; it gets steered there anyway.
The world is nothing but a bunch of thin lines separating what we think are extremes.
The world doesn’t give even the slightest damn about us or our petty problems.
The Internet make it easy to be deceptive. The Internet makes it easy to be anonymous and to lie and to keep terrible, destructive secrets from your loved ones.
So basically, that entire theory is blown to hell.Not basically, Win corrected. Entirely.
Part of the human condition is that we all think that we are uniquely complex while everyone else is somewhat simpler to read. That is not true, of course. We all have our own dreams and hopes and wan...
Myron, Win, and Esperanza lay sprawled on separate couches like Dalí clocks.
Myron was just getting comfortable when he heard a toilet flush. He looked a question at Win. I am not alone, Win said. Oh. Myron adjusted himself on the couch. A woman? Your gifts, Win said. They nev...
Myron remembered something his father once told him: People have an amazing capacity to mess up their own lives.
Myron reached for the phone and dialed Win's number. After the eighth ring he began to hang up when a weak, distant voice coughed. Hello?Win?Yeah.You okay?Hello?Win?Yeah.What took you so long to answe...
Mental illnesses are so strange. A physical problem we can understand. But when the mind works irrationally, well, by its very definition, the rational mind cannot truly relate.
Maya had one of those sudden pow moments sneak up on her, the ones all parents experience, when you are simply overwhelmed by your love for your child, when you are awestruck and you can feel somethin...
I look at the helpless bundle in the crib and she looks up at me and I wonder what I would notdo to protect her. I would lay down my life in a second. And truth be told, if push came to shove, I would...
Hope is cruel. Hope reminds me of what almost was. Hope makes the physical ache return.
Adam left work early and drove to the new turf field at Cedarfield High School. The boys’ lacrosse team was practicing. He parked down the block, out of sight, and watched his son Thomas from behind t...
She looks really happy.Everyone looks happy on Facebook.I know, right? What's up with that?
You’re not a hypocrite. You aim toward lofty heights. The fact that your arrow cannot always reach them does not make you a hypocrite.
You think I should tell Jeremy? I think first and foremost you should put aside your Batman complex, she said. What the hell does that mean? It means you always try a little too hard to be heroic. And...
Win took another putt. Another make. We’re not the same, you and I. We both know that. But it’s okay. It’s not okay. Yes, it is. If we were the same it wouldn’t work. We’d both be dead by now. Or insa...
Well, if you did, you’d be wrong. It is much, much smaller. Try this: Imagine you’re still holding that tiny grain of sand. Now not just the beach you are on, but all the beaches all over the planet,...