I have very specific advice for aspiring writers: go to New York. And if you can't go to New York, go to the place that represents New York to you, where the standards for writing are high, there are...
Instead of filling in the blanks, I wanted to be blank and be filled in.
The mist just keeps on lifting and soon I'll be able to see all the way, as far as the earth's curvature allows. It's a blessing, that curvature, that hidden hemisphere-if we could take it all in at o...
You thought you were found but you realize that you were lost, and someday you may discover that you’re lost now.
Philippe,
You long for a windfall that will let you quit and pursue your great hobby
Just breathing can be such a luxury sometimes.
If you’ve helped someone die, there is nothing I can tell you. If you haven’t, I don’t want to tell you. But I must, or what came later may make no sense.
His thoughts were clearly still shoving him further away, toward some ultimate dark drama that he might or might not have actually lived through but whose telling would let out the pressure inside his...
Behind the building rose towering, aged pine trees whose shadows fell crabbed and arthritic across the lawn. The lawn was expansive and in good, green shape. It offered contrast. It was like a fresh h...
Epistemological
We were all journalists, professional truth-seekers, but one thing we knew about the truth that laymen were prone to disregard was that it need not be literal or factual; the unpredictable human perso...
I could see tall ideas standing up behind his eyes.
His voice sounded more sincere in these surroundings, less distorted by pride and pain.
Frustration comes from fighting your own momentum.
Truth from him, is a swan dive through a mirror into a whirlpool.
Endless soaring toy-rocket dreams and schemes that let out a sad, weak 'pop' at their high climax point and then flake apart as they tumble toward some thorn patch that's also a hatching ground for ba...
They were gray, staring, bottomless, blank, fallen eyes whose pupils played scenes of heaven upside down.
They lived in a blurry world, those two, where clear, consistent intentions weren't required.
She's everything I wanted when I was young and everything I distrust now that I'm not.