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.
We'll never be as young as we are tonight.
It's just the biggest mistake I could think to make
Masochism is a valuable job skill.
It’s a fun playtime. Please, don’t kill it with big words.
A moment is all you can expect from perfection.