I know that homes burn and that you should think what to save before they start to. Not because, in the heat of it, everything looks as valuable as everything else. But, because nothing looks worth the bother, not even your life.

The worst of it is over now, and I can't say that I am glad. Lose that sense of loss--you have gone and lost something else.

I wanted to be a veterinarian, but slipped up when I hit organic chemistry.

The only time the word baby doesn't scare me is the time that it should, when it is what a man calls me.

I think of the chimp, the one with the talking hands.

I moved through the days like a severed head that finishes a sentence.

consolation is a beautiful word. everyone skins his knee-that doesnt make yours hurt anyless.