The heart of a man is like deep water

And any small moments of intense, flaring beauty such as this morning's will be utterly forgotten, dissolved by time like a super-8 film left out in the rain, without sound, and quickly replaced by thousands of silently growing trees.

I find it hard to believe that human beings are the crowning achievement of life on earth. Something better than us has to come along.

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

Time erases both the best and the worst of us.

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

Give parents the tiniest of confidences and they'll use them as crowbars to jimmy you open and rearrange your life with no perspective. Sometimes I'd just like to mace them. I want to tell them that I envy their upbringings that were so clean, so free of futurelessness. And I want to throttle them for blindly handing over the world to us like so much skid-marked underwear.