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Concert pianists get to be quite chummy with dead composers. They can't help it. Classical music isn't just . It's a personal diary. An uncensored confession in the dead of night. A baring of the soul...

They saw me. Milton's smile curled off his face like unsticky tape. And I knew immediately, I was a boy band, a boondoggle, born fool. He was going to pull a Danny Zuko in when Sandy says hello to hi...

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I couldn't let go of the thought that it had, in fact, been he, restless and moody Heathcliff. Day after day, he floated through all the Wal-Marts in America, searching for me in a million lonely aisl...

I remembered what Dad said once, that some people have all of life's answers worked out the day they're born and there's no use trying to teach them anything new. They're closed for business even thou...

Look around. It's almost gone.If only someone had told me that before. About life. If only I had understood.

' Dad said, 'has the sort of ellipsis ending most American audiences would rather undergo a root canal than be left with, not only because they loathe anything left to the imagination-we're talking ab...

A deus ex machina will never appear in real life so you best make other arrangements.

I just got another kitten, you know. Found another trademark. It's quite embarrassing I missed it. They can send you to prison for that.He pushed his glasses back on his nose. I'm calling him Murad, a...

If I learned anything about her it was that she lived with a vehemence most of us never have the courage for. Banks tells me. But there was something about her that precluded an ordinary existence. In...

There was something about her playing... a knowledge of darkness in the most extreme form.

I actually felt awed by the remote possibilities of the person liked ever liking you back a corresponding amount.

How scary and sudden the shift from Living to Dead.

Always live your life with your biography in mind.

I couldn't help but suspect something he'd seen or encountered had changed his view of what had happened between them. It had somehow set him free. And he'd let it fly, that gorgeous blackbird of a lo...

Within every elaborate lie, a kernel of truth.

Books give us new lives, loves, and the feeling we aren't alone.

You're mistaking love for perfection, I said. Real love when it's there? It's just

The notes weren't played, he went on, They were poured from a Grecian .

Landlocked Switzerland: They're Nice and Neutral Only Because They're Tiny

We swear we see each other, but all we are ever able to make out is a tiny porthole view of an ocean. We think we remember the past, but our memories are as fantastic and flimsy as dreams. It's so eas...