I can't pass a bookstore without slipping inside, looking for the next book that will burn my hand when I touch its jacket, or hand me over a promissory note of such immense power that it contains the formula that will change everything about me.

Men are prisoners of their genitalia and women are the keepers of the keys to paradise.

The most powerful words in English are, 'Tell me a story.'

I was born to be a point guard, but not a very good one.

I loved my parents... but that can never change the fact that my father's violence ruined my childhood.

I've always found paranoia to be a perfectly defensible position.

It enclosed us in its laceries as we watched the moon spill across the Atlantic like wine from an overturned glass. With the light all around us, we felt secret in that moon-infused water like pearls forming in the soft tissues of oysters.