I wondered if it was possible to donate my body to science before I was actually dead. I wondered if a disease were to be named after me what the symptoms would be.

David Bergen is a master of taut, spare prose that's both erotic and hypnotic. . . .

If you have to end up in the hospital, try to focus all your pain in your heart rather than your head.

After that we tried thirty-nine times to stand together on the tube until we finally did. It was fun. I liked the falling part, and holding hangs. Relationships were so easy when all you had to work on was standing up together.

It's raining questions around here. A person could drown in them.

Is it wrong to trust in a beautiful lie if it helps you get through life?

I love road trips. You get into this Zen rhythm; throw sense of time out the window.