She craned up on her toes and kissed my cheek...Don't do that, I said. You just met me. This is New York.
People have to be patient when they're talking to a nervous person.
But the day I can't shrug off a twinge of self-pity, is the day I'm washed up for keeps.
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...
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.
Waves, sky, trees, Essrog - I was off the page now, away from the grammar of skyscrapers and pavement.
I'm always serious. That's the tragedy of my life.
Fifth grade was fourth grade with something wrong. Nothing changed outright. Instead it teetered. You'd pushed futility at Public School 38 so long by then you expected the building itself would be em...
Each might have been a week except for night’s failure to come and close the deal. When
What age is a black boy when he learns he's scary?
Memory is a rehearsal for a show that never goes on.
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,...
Sleepwalkers, leave other sleepwalkers alone!
The clacking of the checkers on the hardwood points was the music of honest thought, resounding in silence as it navigated the fortunes told by the pips on the dice.
The alphabet Miss Poobner taught was represented on the wall above her head by a series of personified cartoonlike letters--Mr. A, Eating an Apple; Mrs. B, Buying a Broom; and so on--and something ins...
Someday I'd change my name to Shut Up and save everybody a lot of time.
Some people have things written all over their faces; the big guy had a couple of words misspelled in crayon on his.
The whole state of Maine is unlocked.
This kiss would be with me, invisible badge or scar, when I went back to the apartment.
We were all four of us an arrangement around a missing centrepiece, as incoherent as a been less sentence.
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