Nick and I could become goodwill ambassadors for the city now that the porno shops on 42nd Street are gone. Must make mental note to contact mayor.
Memo to Merle Haggard: Miracles really do happen. I
Lou's such an old punk he was around when the Ramones were junkie hustlers first and musicians second, when punk meant something other than a mass-marketing concept designed to help the bridge-and-tun...
Like dogs and lions, small children can sense fear. The slightest flinch, the slightest disinclination, and they will jump atop you and devour you.
Librarians were like Mary Poppins to me. They always knew how to match a book to my mood or to whatever I was going through at the time. I could always find peace in books. And escape?
I’m sorry, she said. And it was like a faucet had been turned, and only one sentiment could come gushing out. I’m so sorry. Oh my God, I can’t believe how sorry I am. I didn’t mean to drop it, Dash. A...
It’s moments like this, when you need someone the most, that your world seems smallest.
It was a red Moleskine—made of neither mole nor skin, but nonetheless the preferred journal of my associates who felt the need to journal in non-electronic form.
It was Chaos on Glitter Ice. A massacre of librarians.
It still might be a shock. To realize you are just one story walking among millions.
I never married because I was too easily boref. It's an awful, self-defeating trait to have. It's much better to be too easily interested.
I mean, I don’t know how the world broke. And I don’t know if there’s a God who can help us fix it. But the fact that the world is broken - I absolutely believe that. Just look around us. Every minute...
I know this is the wrong choice. But it feels like the only choice. So I make it.
I felt a sense of longing for him such as I’ve never experienced in my lifetime for any person, or even for any pet.
I don't see why ogling same-sex kissing should be the exclusive domain of frat boys whacking off to lesbian action, that's so sexist. Feminism should be all inclusive- it should be about sexual libera...
Deep down, you see, I long to be arcane, esoteric. I would love to confound people with their own language.
Danger is a state of mind. Farzad informs me. Conquer it, and you ride heaven.
Cinderella was such a dork. She left behind her glass slipper at the ball and then went right back to her stemonster's house. It seems to me she sho8ld have worn the glass slipper always, to make hers...
But I know the difference. Everyone else is a ghost. I exist here alone, stranded by choice. Deserted.
Are you over him? I asked. We both knew the him I referred to was not Benny, but the him who broke Langston’s heart so devastatingly. Langston’s first love. In some ways, I think I’ll never be over hi...