Was it animal pee or human pee? Someone asked. How would I know? What, am I an expert in the study of pee?

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

But it was only hot outside, and generally I only walked outside between one air-conditioned place to another.

Compromise is when you do what I tell you and I do what I want. ~Tiny Cooper

We have to live with ambiguity. We have to give ourselves over to it. The question is: How? How are we going to live in a universe where important questions will always go unanswered?

For she had embodied the Great Perhaps--she had proved to me that it was worth it to leave behind my minor life for grander maybes, and now she was gone and with her my faith in perhaps.

A novel is a conversation between a reader and a writer.