When you’ve been married to someone for a while, you occasionally share these brief psychic moments, and right at that instant I know what she’s going to say just before she says it, even while I’m th...
A good speech is like a woman's skirt: short enough to hold your attention, long enough to cover the subject
Bugs, Thumper, Roger, Peter, Velveteen. I name them after their storied counterparts and then I try my best to brain them. Because they remind me of where I am, marooned out here in this life I never...
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...
I sift through the jumble of emotions she evokes in me, trying exactly to isolate what it is I feel for her, which is like untying a severely knotted rope, where all you end up with is more knots in a...
I totally remember what it felt like to be so full. Full of what? I don't know. Full of promise, full of dreams, full of shit. Mostly just full of yourself. So full you're bursting. And then you get o...
I'll never fully understand the agenda of angry breast-feeders.
It must be tough, I said sincerely. Having no clear line between your reality and your bullshit. There’s a line, Jack said. It just moves around a lot.
It's amazing how harmless the world can sometimes seem.
It's just hard to see people from your past when your present is so cataclysmically fucked.
It's true. somewhere inside us we are all the ages we have ever been. We're the 3 year old who got bit by the dog. We're the 6 year old our mother lost track of at the mall. We're the 10 year old who...
Once, when I was old enough to ponder these things and young enough to think there might be credible answers, I whispered to Dad during Rosh Hashanah services, Do you believe in God? Not really, he sa...
Please, she says. Tell me what you’re thinking. It’s an absurd request. Our minds, unedited by guilt or shame, are selfish and unkind, and the majority of our thoughts, at any given time, are not for...
There’s nothing more depressing than waking up in your shoes.
Time doesn't heal as much as it buries things in the undergrowth of your brain, where they lie in wait to ambush you when you least expect it.
To have nothing when you're twenty is cool, it's expected, but to have nothing when you're halfway to seventy, softening and widening on a daily basis, is something altogether different. It's like set...
We knew marriage could be difficult in the same way that we knew there were starving children in Africa. It was a tragic fact but worlds away from our reality.
We knew marriage could be difficult in the same way that we knew there were starving children in Africa.
Why'd you come to me?Really?Yeah.I care less about letting you down.
You didn’t invent grief. My shrink once told me that. Really? Your shrink told you about me?
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