When I desire you a part of me is gone.

Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.

The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.

he stood against the wind and let it peel him clean

It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.

You can get used to eating breakfast with a man in a fedora. You can get used to anything, my mother was in the habit of saying.

Maybe I could have been good as a drawer if I had done it as much as I did writing, but it's more scary to draw. It's more revealing. You can't disguise yourself in drawing.