Silence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please.

Americans who read and think are patriots of the first order. The kind who know enough to roll their eyes whenever anyone tries to claim sole custody of the flag and weild it as a blunt instrument. There are as many ways to love America as there are Americans, and our country needs us all.

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

It's tough to break yourself as news to a town that already knows you.

He lifts her breasts, which fit perfectly into his hands, though he knows this is no promise that he gets to keep them. A million things you can't have will fit in a human hand.

Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging to drown out quiet desperation.

I stir in bed and the memories rise out of me like a buzz of flies from a carcass. I crave to be rid of them.