If you want to get a child to love you, then you should just go hide in the closet for three or for hours. They get down on their knees and pray for you to return. That child will turn you into God. Lonely children probably wrote the Bible.

Somewhere, a sparrow is singing in B minor.

You see only the beautiful things when you stand still. You only see things that you don't ordinarily notice. The birds are the prettiest things, I imagine.

All writers have the idea that they are famous.

A lot of children grow up in poverty with flawed parents, but their inner world is still as inherently filled with wonder and innocence as children who are kept away from the city's underbelly.

It never occurs to you when you are very young to need something other than what your parents have to offer you.

My breath in the cold air was bleach that accidentally spilled on a black t-shirt.