I'm an American. We're a people diseased with progress.

I suppose the word "unbearable" is a lie by definition. Unless you kill yourself immediately after using it.

I'm an American. We're a people diseased with progress.

Peace is purchased in the currency of loss.

If Im going to invest the time in a novel, I want something more than the entertainment you get out of most genre fiction.

One day the ordinariness will be terminally punctuated by the extraordinary full stop of death.

That's what happens when you keep a secret from someone you love: you start to hate them for allowing you to prove your own willingness to deceive them.