something can only become an illusion after disillusionment. before that, it is something real. what caused the disillusionment? no one told me the print on the wall was just ink and paper and had no life of its own. at some point the cat stopped blinking, and i stopped thinking it could.

What year is it in your imagination?

We don't create a fantasy world to escape reality. We create it to be able to stay.

But when the thing that is scaring you is already Jesus, who are you supposed to pray to?

The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry.

I do dumb stuff, like playing my favorite dumb Barry White song and lip-synching into the mirror so it looks like his voice is coming out of my mouth.

You know that great car-stomach feeling when you fly over a hump? That was my whole body.