It has been my experience that maximizing income is a helluva lot less important than maximizing passion and fulfillment in your both professionally and personally.

While I did not fancy myself a particularly good person, I never thought my first real sexual action would be prostitutional.

Half-drunk on well-creamed gas station coffee and the exhilarating loneliness of a freeway in nighttime.

All the things paper-thin and paper-frail, and all the people too.

Because so many people use goodreads, it is an amazingly good—and amazingly underutilized—resource for understanding what people read, why, and how they feel about their reading experiences.

You had been a paper boy to me all these years - two dimensions as a character on the page and two different, but still flat, dimensions as a person. But that night you turned out to be real.

Walt Whitman is HOT! I mean, that guy could sound his barbaric yawps over the roofs of my world any time.