"Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will," she says. The sky is like a monochromatic contemporary painting, drawing me in with its illusion of depth, pulling me up. "Yeah, that's true," I say. But then after I think about it for a second, I add, "But then again, if you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all."

I'm a bad boyfriend. She's a bad girlfriend. We deserve each other.

We are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be.

For the longest time, it felt kind of like my chest was cracking open, but not precisely in an unpleasant way.

When we read the right book generously, it can change the way think about the world around us.

Tiny Cooper is not the world's gayest person, and he is not the world's largest person, but I believe he may be the world's largest person who is really, really gay, and also the world's gayest person who is really, really large.

I kind of conned you into believing you were falling in love with a healthy person.