Indiana,’ he said. ‘They steal the land from the Indians and leave the name, yes?

What's the point in being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? How very odd, to believe God gave you life, and yet not think that life asks more of you than watching TV.

There's a place in the brain for knowing what cannot be remembered.

She said 'I love you' as if it were a secret, and an immense one.

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

It was kind of a beautiful day, finally real summer in Indianapolis, warm and humid - the kind of weather that reminds you after a long winter that while the world wasn't built for humans, we were built for the world.

That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color instead of taste.