I know Long Island like I know my kitchen. I understand it’s there for my pleasure and enjoyment, but somehow I never manage to go there.
I looked like I wasn’t at a cocktail party but an airport, waiting for my life to take off.Infinitely delayed.
I love to put my characters in the dark, it's only then that I can see exactly who they are
Sometimes it takes more courage not to let yourself see. Sometimes knowledge is damaging - not enlightenment but enleadenment.
The mountains hugged each other sternly, similar to the way men hugged other men, not letting their chests touch. Thin clouds hung around their necks, and the mountains farthest away, the ones passed...
I took a step inside to get a better look and realized the man was actually Christ, the way he appeared in Sunday-school classrooms: milky complexion, starched blue dressing gown, a beard trimmed as p...
Maybe she was really good at improv. I couldn't be certain she was nineteen or that her name really was Nora Halliday. Maybe she was like one of those sweaters with an innocent little thread hanging o...
They were always reminding themselves to stop measuring life in coffee spoons, mornings and afternoons, to keep swimming way, way down to the bottom of the ocean to find where the mermaids sang.
You know what Confucius said? Remind me. ‘Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.’
It is adorable and healthily childlike secretly to believe in fairy tales, but the instant one articulates such viewpoints to other people, one goes from darling to dumbo, from childlike to chillingly...
What, really, was the difference between something hounding you and something leading you somewhere?
It was what accidental deaths did to people, made everybody's sea floor irregular and uneven, causing tidal currents to collide, surge upward, thereby resulting in small yet volatile eddies churning a...
It's a common feeling for people to feel intermittent antipathy toward individuals they're familiar with.
It's kind of funny...the moments on which life hinges. I think growing up you always imagine your life--your success--depends on your family and how much money they have, where you go to college, what...
The trying to change what they think, the attempt to explain, the hope they’ll come to see your side of things, it was exhausting because it never made a dent and afterward you only ached unbearably.
It’s hard, in America, not to equate ‘happiness’ with ‘things’.
Life had been a suit I'd only put on for special occasions. Most of the time I kept it in the back of my closet, forgetting it was there. We were meant to die when it was barely stitched anymore, when...
Love? Dopamine released in the brain, which gets depleted over time, leaving contempt.
The Boston Tea Party was the work of 1777-era frat boys)
When men desire each other, they crash together like wrecking balls, quenching their need right then and there, as if the world were about to end.
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