Because tanning and steroids are only a problem if you plan to live a long time.

It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.

It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one.

This was freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.

If you take my stuff apart, you'll find my choruses of repetitions are picked up almost verbatim from Kurt Vonnegut, and my distanced fracture quality is all from Amy Hempel, who's probably my favourite writer.

These flowers will be rotten in a couple hours. Birds will crap on them. The smoke here will make them stink, and tomorrow a bulldozer will probably run over them, but for right now they are so beautiful.

Just let your hand drop; and let fate decide for you.