We have to admire the world for not ending on us.

How inevitable it is; we step into an ordinary moment and never come out again.

There are rocks deep enough in this earth that no matter what the rupture, they will never see the surface. There is, I think, a fear of love. There is a fear of love.

They told me Corrigan smashed all the bones in his chest when he hit the steering wheel. I thought, Well at least in heaven his Spanish chick'll be able to reach in and grab his heart.

The city was bigger than its buildings, bigger than its inhabitants too. It had its own nuances. It accepted whatever came its way, the crime and the violence and the little shocks of good that crawled out from underneath the everyday.

There is always room for at least two truths.

There are moments we return to, now and always. Family is like water - it has a memory of what it once filled, always trying to get back to the original stream.