The reason to have a home is to keep certain people in and everyone else out.

The Buddhists say there are 121 states of consciousness. Of these, only three involve misery or suffering. Most of us spend our time moving back and forth between these three.

These bits of poetry that stick to her like burrs.

To live in a city is to be forever flinching.

You think you want the blue skies, the open road, but really you want the tunnel, you want to know how the story ends.

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

The only love that feels like love is the doomed kind. (Fun fact.)