Salmon. Salmon, salmon, salmon, salmon. I eat so much salmon at these weddings, twice a year I get this urge to swim upstream.

These days the nights and mornings have a tendency to bleed into one another.

He's a better person when she's around, and isn't that what friends are for, to raise you up and keep you at your best?

I usually write on a computer - unless I get stuck, at which point I switch to write by hand. I think that's common among writers if they get cornered on something.

You must do what you enjoy.

The city had defeated her, just like they said it would. Like some overcrowded party, no one had noticed her arrival, and would notice if she left.

She had reached a turning point. She no longer believed that a situation could be made better by writing a poem about it.