One of those moments he knew he'd remember and look back on, one of those moments that he'd try to capture in the stories he told. Nothing was happening, really, but the moment was thick with mattering.

She taught me everything I knew about crawfish and kissing and pink wine and poetry. She made me different.

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.

At some point, you just pull off the Band-Aid, and it hurts, but then it's over and you're relieved.

For she had embodied the Great Perhaps--she had proved to me that it was worth it to leave behind my minor life for grander maybes, and now she was gone and with her my faith in perhaps.

Nothing has ever looked like that ever in all of human history.

The world went on, as it does, without my full participation, and I only woke up from the reverie when someone said my name.