I think you would like Warren. He drinks Courvoisier in a Coke can, and has a laugh like you'd find in a cartoon bubble.

He wondered how we know that what happens to us isn't good.

What I think," Chatty says, "is that if a man loves a woman more than a woman loves a man, then they're even.

When my mother died, my father's early widowhood gave him social cachet he would not have had if they had divorced. He was a bigger catch for the sorrow attached.

I'm not good at small talk; I'm not good at big talk; and medium talk just doesn't come up.

An idea might spark an essay, but never a story.

In my head there's a broken balcony I fall off of when I speak.