Perhaps growing up meant we put our knives away and feigned ignorance of the damage.

Why does a person even get up in the morning? You have breakfast, you floss your teeth so you'll have healthy gums in your old age, and then you get in your car and drive down I-10 and die. Life is so stupid I can't stand it.

When you're given a brilliant child you polish her and let her shine. Pigs in Heaven

I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence.

In the long run, most of us spend about fifteen minutes total in the entanglements of passion, and the rest of our days looking back on it, humming the tune.

This manuscript of yours that has just come back from another editor is a precious package. Don't consider it rejected. Consider that you've addressed it 'to the editor who can appreciate my work' and it has simply come back stamped 'Not at this address'. Just keep looking for the right address.

A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.