The thing I realize is, that it's not what you take, it's what you leave.

But I bring it up to let you know that this is the way I feel right now. Like Pluto and Jupiter are aligned with the earth and I'm floating.

It's my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting, and for the millionth time in my life I wish for measles or smallpox or some other easily understood disease just to make it easier on me and also on them.

I looked at my reflection in the rearview mirror. Some lipstick would go with this truck, I thought.

Since I stopped writing, I read more than ever. Other people's words, not my own - my words are gone.

I just sat there letting that music cover me like a big, cozy blanket.

Music did that to me, just like God was supposed to, because music seemed both magic and holy.