I spent most of my 20s with these alligator wrestlers in the swamps of South Florida.

You small mortals don't realize the power of your stories.

I moved to New York with the derangement of love. I was writing all these terrible stories, but I had never been happier.

Mythology is a really beautiful vocabulary passed down through centuries that helps us understand the perennial parts of our nature.

Given the brevity of our time here, it does seem likely that our species, too, must have at best a blinkered understanding of the shape of things, the import of certain events and what distinguishes "good" from "bad" luck.

I think that's the real horror story for me, how little you can ever really know about your own motivations. How in the dark we all are about the concerns and the contents of our minds.

The girl has a funny way of romanticizing things.