Not returning phone calls is the severest form of torture in the civilized world.

…deep-diving love, a love that excavates you. It’s something you have to have before you die in order to have lived.

Sadly, American teenagers are to a weightless vacuum as seat cushions are to polyurethane foam -

Mortal fear is as crucial a thing to our lives as love. It cuts to the core of our being and shows us what we are. Will you step back and cover your eyes? Or will you have the strength to walk to the precipice and look out?

In college I studied '60s and '70s radicalism, student activism, forms of political violence, groups like the Weathermen, the Black Panthers, the Symbionese Liberation Army, the New Left.

It’s easy to be yourself in the dark.

Freak the ferocious out.