To be human is to catch the falling person.

I wondered if there would ever be a day when I didn't think about Alaska, wondered whether I should hope for a time when she would be a distant memory - recalled only on the anniversary of her death, or maybe a couple of weeks after, remembering only after having forgotten.

He puts the killing thing in his mouth but doesn't give it the power to kill him.

I'm not from Indianapolis, but I like living in Indianapolis. If I were to explain it, I'd tell someone to imagine a city that perfectly captures the best and the worst of America. Imagine the truly American city, because that's what it is.

Sometimes I don't get you,' I said. She didn't even glance at me. She just smiled toward the television and said, 'You never get me. That's the whole point.

If we'd put them in a vase in the living room, they would have been everyone's flowers. I wanted them to be my flowers.

But there's so much to do: cigarettes to smoke, sex to have, swings to swing on.