America was never innocent. We popped our cherry on the boat over and looked back with no regrets. You can't ascribe our fall from grace to any single event or set of circumstances. You can't lose what you lacked at conception.

I wanted things. Whatever it cost and whatever it took, I would do it. And that's it.

I always cringe when a male friend of mine, who's very fixated on women, puts "compatibility" at the top of his list of attributes that he would be looking for in a woman. I would replace compatibility with dialectic.

It was easy not to think of my future; I didn't have one.

As a kid, I sensed history going on all around me, but the basic thrust of it didn't move me.

As much as I transferred my mother to Elizabeth Shore of The Black Dahlia, as much as her dad mutated into an obsession with crime in general, well, I have thought about other things throughout the years.

Tell me anything. Tell me everything. Revoke our time apart. Love me fierce in danger.