My thoughts seem thick, ketchup stuck in a bottle. Like trying to feel someone's face while wearing goosedown mittens.
Augusten BurroughsJust as I had long suspected, a person didn't really need math for anything anyway. Maybe some people did. Some limited people.
Augusten BurroughsThanksgiving was nothing more than a pilgrim-created obstacle in the way of Christmas; a dead bird in the street that forced a brief detour.
Augusten BurroughsThere is no such thing as too ordinary to write about, whether that's life or a scene in a novel. What's interesting to people, whether it's memoir or fiction, is the truth.
Augusten BurroughsSome damage is too severe, some harm endures. And what you have to do is accept it. And by accept it I mean, donโt be the paralyzed person in the bed who is waiting to walk again. Realize, itโs never gonna happen. And find some other way to get around โswing from a vine, get a Mad Max wheelchair. Anything butโฆwait.
Augusten Burroughs