I often dream about the Dolphin Hotel.
I get irritated, I get upset. Especially when I'm in a hurry. But I see it all as part of our training. To get irritated is to lose our way in life.
I closed my eyes and listened carefully for the descendants of Sputnik, even now circling the earth, gravity their only tie to the planet. Lonely metal souls in the unimpeded darkness of space, they m...
I am struck by how, except when you're young, you really need to prioritize in life, figuring out in what order you should divide up your time and energy. If you don't get that sort of system set by a...
History cannot be erased or altered.Because that would mean killing yourself.
Her smile steps offstage for a moment, then does an encore, all while I'm dealing with my blushing face.
Generally, people who are good at writing letters have no need to write letters. They've got plenty of life to lead inside their own context.
Everything, everything seemed once-upon-a-time.
Ever since I was little my mother had told me, if you don’t know something, go to the library and look it up.
Don't feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that.
Death was not the opposite of life. It was already here, within my being, it had always been here, and no struggle would permit me to forget that.
But this thing, whatever it was, this mistlike something, hung there inside my body like a certain kind of potential. I wanted to give it a name, but the word refused to come to mind. I’m terrible at...
Beyond the window, some kind of small, black thing shot across the sky. A bird, possibly. Or it might have been someone's soul being blown to the far side of the world.
Being with her I feel a pain, like a frozen knife stuck in my chest. An awful pain, but the funny thing is I'm thankful for it. It's like that frozen pain and my very existence are one.The pain is an...
Being alive, if you had to define it, meant emitting a variety of smells
At times like this, adults need a drink
As we go through life we gradually discover who we are, but the more we discover, the more we lose ourselves.
And you’ll return to real life. You need to live it to the fullest. No matter how shallow and dull things might get, this life is worth living. I guarantee it.
All he wanted from the girl was for her to hold his hand again if possible. He wanted her to squeeze his hand again someplace where the two of them could be alone. And he wanted her to tell him someth...
But you knoe, she's right. Every single day, each time I see her face, see her, it's utterly precious.