Would be on top of me like a ton of heavy things.
You can never go back, only forward. I read that in a book once.
The angel we named God banned representations of himself, even the writing of his name, trying to halt the process of literalization—but in the end it became inevitable. The angel found himself at the...
Deep inside each of us is a part that mistrusts order and craves the relief of seeing the world shatter into the chaos it believes lies underneath all along.
I once met a woman who'd been in therapy... and it seemed like the big thing she'd learned was to ignore everything she thought in the first hour of the day. That's when the negative stuff will try to...
The future is hungry and unkind. It’ll gobble you up, little girl. It will eat your heart.
Never ask questions if you might not want to know the answers, lest you are pulled into those stories and the truths they reveal. Sometimes ignorance is better. It would probably not be so popular oth...
I was sixteen back then, and I was going to a party with my girlfriend and Earl. Earl was driving, and his new squeeze was in the passenger seat. I was in the back, holding hands with mine. That was s...
Bodies are great, and I wouldn't go anywhere without mine, but sometimes they're so disappointing. If
The kind of woman who would breeze into the bathroom while I was shaving and say, Yo, shithead—you going to fix that shelf like you said, or do I have to take you back to Husbands-R-Us?
The kind of beards which make you look like you've glued a racoon to your face. The
Of our jobs are bad jobs, but they’re the kind held by people in the background. People who are getting by. People who don’t play pool that well.
Know how much difference a night’s sleep can make, that what seems ungovernable and world-breaking at one A.M. can be made to feel like someone else’s dream if you put seven hours of unconsciousness b...
Wherever you go, and whatever you do, the first thing you're going to see in the morning, and the last thing at night, is the inside of your own head. An unchanging landscape, a still photograph.
We all serve the fates. Life will happen to us come what may. Not everyone gets to be a grandparent, but we're all someone's grandchild. We have no choice therefore but to carry someone else's weight,...
The furniture was white and the carpet red – it looked like the inside of someone's mouth. Three
Some stories, some people, deserve their length and span. They merit a novel-length treatment, have things to tell and other lives to illuminate.
People stopped knowing how to behave, and most of all they stopped remembering . They needed reasons to toe the line, and that was what they were given. Two reasons. Heaven, and Hell. Equal in resonan...
People always find it so frustrating that there’s no structure they can see, that they just have to follow the river downstream and see what they find. They want to know the plot so they can guess the...
It's simply the way things are when people come together out of hurt rather than happiness. When you try to use people as band-aids you merely reinfect the wound, and every moment you spend with them...