I'm not saying I asked for it, only that there are moments when we are sending signals not just to the boys in the room but to all of creation.
I walked down the hall and saw that [she] was sitting on the floor next to a chair. This is always a bad sign. It's a slippery slope, and it's best just to sit in chairs, to eat when hungry, to sleep...
I supposed this was one reason why people got married, to make a fiction that was tellable. It wasn’t just movies that couldn’t contain the full cast of characters — it was us. We had to winnow life d...
I looked out the window for other passengers in love with their drivers, but we were well disguised, we pretended boredom and prayed for traffic.
I had a joint once and I didn’t feel right for a whole year.
And our very few intimacies were simply discontinued. Where did they go, those things we did? Were they recycled?
وینسنت همسری دارد به نام هلنا. او یونانی است و موهای بلندی دارد. رنگشان کردهاست. میخواستم مبادی آداب باشم و نگویم که رنگشان کردهاست اما فکر نمیکنم برایش اهمیتی داشته باشد اگر دیگران هم بدانند رن...
You know what? Forget what I just said. You’re already a part of this. You will eat, you will laugh at stupid things, you will stay up all night just to see what it feels like, you will fall painfully...
When I said a lot of work, I moved my hands apart to represent all the work. He stared at the space between my palms and asked if I played the accordion. I could feel the accordion between my hands an...
Was everything redneck actually mystical?
Two plus three is five, check the email, one plus seven is, check the email, eight, check the email, which comes to a total of, who the hell am I anyway, eighty five. This is how he dismembers his day...
There was nothing in this world that was not a con, suddenly I understood this. Nothing really mattered, and nothing could be lost.
The rest of the house was perfectly in order, as it always is, thanks to my system. It doesn’t have a name—I just call it my system. Let’s say a person is down in the dumps, or maybe just lazy, and th...
She looked at me for a long time and then pulled an old envelope out of the trash and drew a pear on it. This is how your body is shaped. See? Teeny tiny on top and not so tiny on the bottom. Then she...
She fired him on the spot—her face shaking with regret about things she had not nipped while they were still in the bud.
Romance. My utter lack of friends who shared my interests. Romance. The Soul. Romance. Life on other planets. Romance.
Now began the part of her life where she was just very beautiful, except for nothing. Only winners will know what this feels like. Have you ever wanted something very badly and then gotten it? Then yo...
My eyes fell on the gray linoleum floor and I wondered how many other women had sat on this toilet and stared at this floor. Each of them the center of their own world, all of them yearning for someon...
In the weeks that followed, we amazed ourselves. Our habits slid apart easily...And our very few intimacies were simply discontinued. Where did they go, those things we did? Were they recycled? Did so...
If you were wise enough to know that this life would consist mostly of letting go of things you wanted, then why not get good at the letting go, rather than the trying to have? These exotic revelation...