If you, like, consciously think about being cool, you're not cool. If you consciously think about being, like, different or original, you ain't different or original.

That was the summer when everything we would become was hovering just over our heads.

I think that if you're writing about the human condition, my God, you've got to start at base: point zero, point one, is the body.

but back then, in those first days, I was so alone that every day was like eating my own heart.

You eventually erase her contact info from your phone but not the pictures you took of her in bed while she was naked and asleep, never those.

It's never the changes we want that change everything.

It's exactly at these moments, when all hope has vanished, that prayer has dominion.