Well, it doesn't look good. Makes me look like one of those unloved latchkey children they make after-school specials about." "Don't sell yourself short. You're more Masterpiece Theatre.

It felt as if we'd been to war together. Deep in a jungle, alone, I had relied on them, these strangers. They'd held me up in ways only people could. When it was over, an ending never felt like an ending, only an exhausted draw, we went our separate ways. Be we were bonded forever by the history of it, the simple fact they'd seen the raw side of me and me of them, a side no one, not even closest friends or family had ever seen before, or probably ever would.

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

Funnily enough, it is the subject one dreads talking about at length one ends up talking about at length, often without the slightest provocation.

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

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

Life was a freight train barreling toward just one stop, our loved ones streaking past our windows in blurs of color and light. There was no holding on to any of it, and no slowing it down.