My plan was to never get married. I was going to be an art monster instead.

Also she signed away the right to self-destruct years ago. The fine print on the birth certificate, her friends call it.

I had thought loving two people so much would straighten it.

A thought experiment courtesy of the Stoics. If you are tired of everything you possess, imagine that you have lost all these things.

My plan was to never get married. I was going to be an art monster instead.

When God is a father, he is said to be elsewhere. When God is a mother, she is said to be everywhere.

And that phrase - 'sleeping like a baby.' Some blonde said it blithely on the subway the other day. I wanted to lie down next to her and scream for five hours in her ear.