Some people, every now and then, simply had to have One Too Many, go drifty voiced and slouch mouthed, swimming willfully around in their own sadness as if it were hot springs.

There was quantum mechanics, string theory, and then there was the most mind-bending frontier of the natural world, women.

It’s hard, in America, not to equate ‘happiness’ with ‘things’.

... suddenly I was a kid in the hall standing outside my locker about to head to Math. But that was how it went sometimes, the English language, when you really needed it, crumbled to clay in your mouth. That's when all the real things were said.

As much as some people would like to believe, for their own peace of mind, that the appearance of evil in this world had a clean cause, the truth was never that simple.

But when you flee someone, no matter how far you roam, that person will follow you as doggedly as the stars.

It's funny how the night that changes your life forever starts out like all the others.