People don't listen, they just wait for their turn to talk.

There's an old saying: 'No piece of writing is ever finished, it's just abandoned.' But my own rule is: No piece of work is done until you want to kill everyone involved in the publishing process, especially yourself.

In the world I see you are stalking elk through the damp canyon forests around the ruins of Rock feller Center. You'll wear leather clothes that will last you the rest of your life. You'll climb the wrist-thick kudzu vines that wrap the Sears Towers. And when you look down, you'll see tiny figures pounding corn, laying stripes of venison on the empty car pool lane of some abandoned superhighways.

Part of her doing suicide intervention is my caseworker has to mix me another gin and tonic.

Everybody looks a little crazy if you're looking close enough and if you can't look that close, then you don't really love them.

You see, life only turns out good or bad for only a little bit. And then it turns out some other way.

The truth is, every son raised by a single mom is pretty much born married. I don't know, but until your mom dies it seems like all the other women in your life can never be more than just your mistress.