A couple of times, I could have turned a trick. But I didn't want to start. I knew how it would play. When you started thinking it was easy, you were forgetting what it cost.

this was the wonderful thing about strangers. they were big blank pieces of paper, you could draw watever you like on their impresionable surfaces

But I knew one more thing. That people w ho denied who they were or where they had been were in the greatest danger.

I understood why she did it. At that moment I knew why people tagged graffiti on the walls of neat little houses and scratched the paint on new cars and beat up well-tended children. It was only natural to want to destroy something you could never have.

I'm a fish swimming by...catch me if you want me.

Life should always be like this. ... Like lingering over a good meal.

What happened to a dream without a dreamer?