Style is the answer to everything. A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing

I didn't feel that way about it. I had been playing with death for some time. I can't say we were the best of friends but we were well acquainted.

I pretend to understand because I don't want anybody to be hurt

Most people are much better at saying things in letters than in conversation, and some people can write artistic, inventive letters, but when they try a poem or story or novel they become pretentious.

And I said to myself that he was the first thing that I had ever missed in my life.

i am going to start selling air in dark orange bags marked: moon-blooms

I was a bore and didn't know when to smile or fake it. Or rather worse, I did but didn't.