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.

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

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.

Life being what it is, one dreams not of revenge. One just dreams.

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.

We Poor Cousins don’t care at all though, except for when we’re on welfare, broke, starving, unable to buy cool high-tops for our children or pay for their university tuition or purchase massive fourth homes on private islands with helicopter landing pads. But whatever, we descendants of the Girl Line may not have wealth and proper windows in our drafty homes but at least we have rage and we will build empires with that, gentlemen.