I don’t want to fade away, I want to flame away - I want my death to be an attraction, a spectacle, a mystery. A work of art.

That we have some history together that hasn’t happened yet.

I loved every minute of my childhood - sunbathing on the fire escape, digging for buried treasure in the back yard, pulling alewives out of the sand... Then it was all taken away from me. I came back every summer to visit my father until I was 18, but I was always the outsider.

I am at my worst trying to write about things that overlap with my life.

I guess it's always romantic when two people fall in love.... Even if it turns out not to be real.

Everybody sounds stoned, because they're e-mailing people the whole time they're talking to you.

Kathy was a Republican, one of those people who used the unforgivable phrase "meant to be"--usually when describing her own good fortune or the disasters that had befallen other people.