The music from my youth has aged poorly and is now like a joke out of context. You had to be there.
THERE IS NOTHING more pathetically optimistic than the morning erection. I am depressed, unemployed, unloved, basement-dwelling, and bereaved, but there it is, every morning like clockwork, rising up...
Silver is forty-four years old, if you can believe it, out of shape, and depressed—although he doesn’t know if you call it depression when you have good reason to be; maybe then you’re simply sad, or...
Rowdy, hopped-up college kids pass us in an endless, noisy blur like they're being mass produced or squeezed out of a tube - guys skulking in their T-shirts and cargo shorts, girls in low-slung jeans...
People love to do that, to point to some single phenomenon, assign it all the blame, and wipe the slate clean, like when overeaters sue McDonald’s for making them fat pigs.
It's hard to imagine her ever having felt lost, but it's impossible to know the people your parents were before they were your parents.
It was one of those playful arguments that we would carry with us unresolved into old age.
I'm not the same person I was. I'm fucked up. I give her a sideways glance. I am, she says. You haven't even scratched the surface.I find that most people worth knowing are fucked up in some way or an...
I whispered to Dad during Rosh Hashanah services, Do you believe in God? Not really, he said. No.Then why do we come here?
I wake up like this, this sense that I've somehow been transported to an alternate universe where my life took a left instead of a right beacuse of some seeemingly insignificant yet cosmically crucial...
I blame Hollywood for skewing perspectives. Life is just a big romantic comedy to them, and if you meet cute, happily ever-after is a forgone conclusion.
Healing is a deeply private process and, honestly, you’re not welcome to be a part of it. But you will have given me a short furlough from the dark, sorry prison of my mind, and that gift, precious in...
Everybody dies alone. That's a fact. Some more alone than others.
Even under the best of circumstances, there’s just something so damn tragic about growing up. Look
Do you believe in God? Not really, he said. No. Then why do we come here? He sucked thoughtfully on his Tums tablet and put his arm around me, draping me under his musty woolen prayer shawl, and then...
And nothing can be resolved until each of you has come to appreciate the other's position
A problem is something to solve. If there's no solution, it's not a problem, so stop treating it like one.
A lot can go wrong in twelve hours.
A good speech is like a woman's skirt: short enough to hold your attention, long enough to cover the subject
You get married to have an ally against your family, and now I'm heading into the trenches alone.