The floor of ice cream parlor bothered me. It was black-and-white checkboard tile, bigger than supermarket checkboard. If I looked only at a white square, I would be all right, but it was hard to igno...
Scar tissue has no character. It's not like skin. It doesn't show age or illness or pallor or tan. IT has no pores, no hair, no wrinkles. It's like a slipcover. It shields and disguises what's beneath...
People ask, How did you get in there? What they really want to know is if they are likely to end up in there as well. I can't answer the real question. All I can tell them is, It's easy.
Don't separate the mind from the body. Don't separate even character - you can't. Our unit of existence is a body, a physical, tangible, sensate entity with perceptions and reactions that express it a...
Back then I didn't know that I -- or anyone-- could make a life out of boyfriends and literature. As far as I could see, life demanded skills I didn't have. The result was chronic emptiness and bo...
We say that Columbus discovered America and Newton discovered gravity, as though America and gravity weren't there until Columbus and Newton got wind of them. This was the way I felt about the tunnels...
Sometimes the only way to stay sane is to go a little crazy.
Maybe, there's a moment growing up when something peels back... Maybe, maybe, we look for secrets because we can't believe our mind.
In a strange way we were free. We’d reached the end of the line. We had nothing more to lose.
Can human beings love each other? Must we always love an image we've labored over secretly, never love the living soul with all its mire and murk?
Why I am opposed to antidepressants. Because I think depression has something to tell me. Because often depression is an appropriate reaction.Because I am terrified of changing the functioning of my b...
When you’re sad you need to hear your sorrow structured into sound.
When I was supposed to be awake, I was asleep. When I was supposed to sleep, I was silent. When a pleasure offered itself to me, I avoided it.
We might get out sometime, but she was locked up forever in that body.
Some people say that having any conscious opinion on the matter is a mark of sanity, but I'm not sure that's true. I still think about it. I'll always have to think about it. I often ask myself if I'm...
She rushed out, because the darkness in the theater was too much when combined with the darkness in her head .
Once you start parsing a face, it's a peculiar item: squishy, pointy, with lots of air vents and wet spots.
My family had a lot of characteristics - achievements, ambitions, talents, expectations - that all seemed to be recessive in me.
Light like this does not exist, but we wish it did. We wish the sun could make us young and beautiful, we wish our clothes could glisten and ripple against our skins, most of all, we wish that everyon...
It was a spring day, the sort that gives people hope: all soft winds and delicate smells of warm earth. Suicide weather.