I think we're simply going to run out of Nature before we have a chance to destroy it.

A ring is a halo on your finger.

One of the cruelest things you can do to another person is pretend you care about them more than you really do.

just then a bee bumbled above us and stole our attention the way flying things can

Venice Beach: proof of the biological impossibility of imagining a person being simultaneously good-looking and poor.

Everyone has a special place they store their tension (I'm on shiatsu duty), the same way everyone misspells the same words over and over. Karla stores her tension in her rhomboid muscles, and I remove it. This is making me feel good. That I can do this.

Truth be told, John said, the one thing in this world I want more than anything else is a great big crowbar, to jimmy myself open and take whatever creature that's sitting inside and shake it clean like a rug and then rinse it in a cold, clear lake like up in Oregon, and then I want to put it under the sun to let it heal and dry and grow and sit and come to consciousness again with a clear and quiet mind.