Leaving feels good and pure only when you leave something important, something that mattered to you. Pulling life out by the roots. But you can't do that until your life has grown roots.

The world is not a wish-granting factory.

Random questions are the least random of all questions.

Lonley, Vaguely pedophilic swing set seeks the butts of children.

I write about broken people who need other people in order to go on. But those are the only kind of people I know to exist. We are all broken.

Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not so kind.

Meriwether Lewis's last words were, 'I am not a coward, but I am so strong. So hard to die.' I don't doubt that it is, but it cannot be much harder than being left behind.