I always work in a room where there's no Internet to keep from being distracted so easily.

There have been hermaphrodites around forever, Cal. Forever. Plato said that the original human being was a hermaphrodite. Did you know that? The original person was two halves, one male, one female. Then these got separated. That's why everybody's always searching for their other half. Except for us. We've got both halves already.

The time has to be right and the heart willing.

The only way we know it's true is that we both dreamed it. That's what reality is. It's a dream everyone has together.

I went into the desert to forget about you. But the sand was the color of your hair. The desert sku was the color of your eyes. There was nowhere I could go that wouldn't be you.

The humming of my parents' voices from behind my bedroom wall, which throughout my childhood had filled me with a sense of security, had now become a source of anxiety and panic.

and she had succeeded, on the second try, in hurling herself out of the world