Reading a good book helps us to feel un-alone.

The important thing is not whatever nonsense the voices are saying, but what the voices are feeling.

Chuck Parson did not participate in organized sports, because to do so would distract from his larger goal of his life: to one day be convicted of murder

The sky is like a monochromatic contemporay painting, drawing me in its illusion of depth, pulling me up.

The book was turned to the page with Anne Frank's name, but what got me about it was the fact that right beneath her name there were four Aron Franks. FOUR. Four Aron Franks without museums, without historical markers, without anyone to mourn them. I silently resolved to remember and pray for the four Aron Franks as long as I was around.

If I ever end up being the kind of person who has one kid and seven bedrooms. Do me a favor and shoot me.

I liked being a person. I wanted to keep at it.