Hope is something really tough and tenacious you have to give up. It’s an addiction to break.

It’s weird to think the place where we’re standing will only be a point in the sky.

A moment is all you can expect from perfection.

Yes, these are bruises from fighting and I'm okay with that.

Marla tells me how in the wild you don't see old animals because as soon as they age, animals die. If they get sick or slow down, something stronger kills them. Animals aren't meant to get old. Marla lies down on her bed and undoes the tie on her bathrobe, and says our culture has made death something wrong. Old animals should be an unnatural exception. Freaks.

Abortion occurs so frequently in my stories. Abortion sort of synthesizes both sex and death. To have sex and death placed as close to one another as possible is always a goal of mine.

Nothing shows you the straight line from here to death like a list.