The modern world is devoted to vanishing species, vanishing weather and vanishing capacity for wonder.

Hasn't it been a long time since you had a flying dream?

Once he entered my life, I promptly forgot all my years of putting on a brave face while browsing at bookstores until closing time, and of having one, two, three beers while watching crime shows and CNN. I completely forgot the hateful sensation of loneliness, like thirst and hunger together pressing on my stomach.

You really have to wonder why we even bother to get up in the morning. I mean, really: Why work? Simply to buy more stuff?

Jason said, "Yes. Gerard T. Giraffe." What does the 'T' stand for?" 'The.

Most of us have only two or three genuinely interesting moments in our lives; the rest is filler.

Nature is one great big wood-chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones and hair.