Las Vegas is a SimCity game gone horribly wrong.

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.

Flying dreams mean that you're doing the right thing with your life.

Their talk was endless, compulsive, and indulgent, sometimes sounding like the remains of the English language after having been hashed over by nuclear war survivors for a few hundred years.

The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.

What is prayer but a wish for the events in your life to string together to form a story -- something that makes some sense of events you know have meaning.

With the first drink comes the truth, with the second drink comes wishful thinking, and with the third drink come the lies.