-Most people would say that she's beautiful. -That's because she's been with most people.

You should never stick something that you are allergic to into your mouth, especially if that thing is cats.

I don’t smoke, although it looks fantastic in films. But I light matches on those thinking blank nights when I crawl my route out onto the roof of the garage and the sky while my parents sleep innocent and the lonely cars move sparse on the faraway streets, when the pillow won’t stay cool and the blankets bother my body no matter how I move or lie still. I just sit with my legs dangling and light matches and watch them flicker away.

Historically, a story about people inside impressive buildings ignoring or even taunting people standing outside shouting at them turns out to be a story with an unhappy ending.

I do what I do," I said, "in order to do something else.

Grinning is something you do when you are entertained in some way, such as reading a good book or watching someone you don't care for spill orange soda all over themselves.

I stayed there loving you, though the love made me, not sad but I guess melancholy, for a reason I couldn’t point to.