as the spirit wanes the form appears

Thanksgiving. It proved you had survived another year with its wars, inflation, unemployment, smog, presidents. It was a grand neurotic gathering of clans: loud drunks, grandmothers, sisters, aunts, screaming children, would-be suicides. And don't forget indigestion. I wasn't different from anyone else: There sat the 18-pound bird on my sink, dead, plucked, totally disemboweled. Iris would roast it for me.

she knew what she wanted and it wasn't / me. / I know more women like that than any / other kind.

Sundays kill more people than bombs.

I didn't have any friends at school, didn't want any. I felt better being alone. I sat on a bench and watched the others play and they looked foolish to me.

some men never die and some men never live but we're all alive tonight.

I went to the bathroom and threw some water on my face, combed my hair. If I could only comb that face, I thought, but I can't.