Night fell clean and cold in Dublin, and wind moaned beyond my room as if a million pipes played the air.

America is the most violent democracy in the world. It's something that's met with great shock, horror, and mystery when I travel to other countries. They ask, Why are there so many shootings in America? Why does everyone own a gun?

When I was in second grade, my mother moved from Miami to this evangelical conservative environment in western North Carolina, two miles down the road from Billy Graham and his wife, Ruth.

rain slowly slides down the glass as if the night is crying.

To almost die is to know that one day you will, and to never again feel the same about anything.

I've never taken a scalpel to a dead body.

Leaves covered pavement like soggy cereal.