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.

What you see at fight club is a generation of men raised by women.

A moment is all you can expect from perfection.

You cannot be the person they know and the great, glorious person you want to become. Not at the same time.

I ran. I ran until my muscles burned and my veins pumped battery acid. Then I ran some more.

No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.

Also consider that someday, when you’re dead and rotted, kids with their baby teeth will sit in their time-geography class and laugh about how stupid you were.