We are being very nomadic with the truth, yes?

We laughed and laughed, together and separately, out loud and silently, we were determined to ignore whatever needed to be ignored, to build a new world from nothing if nothing in our world could be salvaged, it was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn't think about my life at all.

I felt, that night, on that stage, under that skull, incredibly close to everything in the universe, but also extremely alone.

...accepting the compromise of the way we have been, the way we are, and the way we will likely be...may we live together in unwavering love and good health, amen.

All really great artists, Jackson Pollack, John Cage, Beckett or Joyce - you are never indifferent to them.

She wants to know if I love her, that's all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but the knowledge that love is there, like new batteries in the flashlight in the emergency kit in the hall closet.

The hardest part of writing is not to get the ideas but to remember, why it is important to get them.