Writers have no real area of expertise. They are merely generalists with a highly inflamed sense of punctuation.

I don't think of any sentence as a "one-liner", but I do pay attention to how people actually speak when they are being funny. Rhythm is key.

As the most recently arrived to earthly life, children can seem in lingering possession of some heavenly lidless eye.

I had never feared insomnia before--like prison, wouldn't it just give you more time to read?

Once love had seemed like magic. Now it seemed like tricks.

Her life her life had taken on the shape of a terrible mistake. She hadn't been given the proper tools to make a real life with, she decided, that was it. She'd been given a can of gravy and a hair-brush and told, "There you go." She'd stood there for years, blinking and befuddled, brushing the can with the brush.

You chose love like a belief, a faith, a place, a box for one's heart to knock against like a spook in the house.