This would be...a book that would be a trapdoor down into some place dark. A place only you could go, alone, when you opened the cover. Because only books have that power.

Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it's your responsibility to love it, or change it.

I'm a toxic waste byproduct of God's creation.

some soap opera, you know, real people pretending to be fake people with made-up problems being watched by real people to forget their real problems.

For the most part my friends can always be more entertaining than the tube ever can be.

The air will always be to filled with something. Your body too sore or tired. Your father too drunk. Your wife too cold. You will always have some excuse not to live your life.

The religious school she went to, growing up, Ms. Wright said how all the girls had to wear a scarf tied to cover their ears at all times. Based on the biblical idea that the Virgin Mary became pregnant when the Holy Spirit whispered in her ear. The idea that ears were vaginas. That, hearing just one wrong idea, you lost your innocence. One detail too many and you’d be ruined. Overdosed on information.