I do have a really good memory. I mean, like, I can remember all the phone numbers of everybody on the street I grew up on.

A pool game mixes ritual with geometry.

For me, everything's too much and nothing's enough.

I tell people not to write too soon about their lives. Writing about yourself too young is loaded with psychological complexities.

There's a space at the bottom of an exhale, a little hitch between taking in and letting out that's a perfect zero you can go into. There's a rest point between the heart muscle's close and open - an instant of keenest living when you're momentarily dead. You can rest there.

Having a great dad probably permitted me to pal around with guys in a way that some women don't.

When you do try to picture the boys who do ask you out, they're absolutely featureless, like old carvings eroded by centuries of rain and wind.