People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.

Don't do this. I love you. Don't shut me out.

Everyone's in their own personal coma.

The same architect who designed the Seattle fair's futuristic Science Center, with its lacy Gothic arches and spires, Minoru Yamasaki, was hired to design the twin towers of the World Trade Center. Seattle had promised fairgoers a glimpse of the world that would exist in 2001. That year eventually unfolded as something less than the dream we'd imagined.

The problem with every story is you tell it after the fact.

About my boss, Tyler tells me, if I'm really angry, I should go to the post office and fill out a change-of-address card and have all his mail forwarded to Rugby, North Dakota.

I still love him so much I'll hide any amount of conjugated estrogen in his food. So much I'll do anything to destroy him.