She craned up on her toes and kissed my cheek...Don't do that, I said. You just met me. This is New York.
Memory is a rehearsal for a show that never goes on.
I'm tightly wound. I'm a loose cannon. Both - I'm a tightly wound loose cannon, a tight loose.
I'd underestimated him. I assumed anyone who started out gut-punching you in an elevator couldn't have all that much else in his arsenal. For instance, I had no idea he could smile, let alone at such...
But the day I can't shrug off a twinge of self-pity, is the day I'm washed up for keeps.
Bruno’s brain might have parachuted somewhere over the Atlantic.
We were all four of us an arrangement around a missing centrepiece, as incoherent as a been less sentence.
The morning’s light danced on the spine of the new bridge, which towered like the guts of a cosmic piano. The same light that agitated the picture windows of the gaudy homes tumbled so recklessly into...
The clouds were still bunched up in the sky like a gang on a street corner, and it looked to me like they had the sun pretty effectively intimidated.
The cars rushing below knew nothing. People in cars weren't New Yorkers anyway, they'd suffered some basic misunderstanding. The two boys on the walkway, apparently standing still they were moving fas...
Sleepwalkers, leave other sleepwalkers alone!
People have to be patient when they're talking to a nervous person.
Of all records, Chase, Some Girls! It was in a clutch of the most horrendous crap, J. Geils Band, Sniff 'n' the Tears, the kind of albums you'd use for landfill.
Mingus Rude, Arthur Lomb, Gabriel Stern and Tim Vandertooth, even Aaron K. Doily: Dylan never met anyone who wasn't about to change immediately into someone else. His was a special talent for encounte...
I’d never pondered the bourgeois implications of an earplug.
How strange it began to seem that cars have bodies that never are supposed to touch, a disaster if they do.
Chaos didn't know what this meant. He kept feeling like somehow, intending to travel across land, he'd traveled through time instead.
As I get older I find that the friendships that are the most certain, ultimately, are the ones where you and the other person have made substantial amounts of money for one another.
What age is a black boy when he learns he's scary?
We writers aren't sculpting in DNA, or even clay or mud, but words, sentences, paragraphs, syntax, voice; materials issued by tongue or fingertips but which upon release dissolve into the atmosphere,...