New Orleans cuisine is Creole rather than Cajun.

New Orleans cuisine is Creole rather than Cajun.

Horror is the badge of humanity, worn proudly, self-righteously, and often falsely.

My mother is an office manager, my father a professor of economics and financial planner.

All at once it hit him: this was power too, just as surely as smashing your fist into someone’s face, just as surely as putting a hammer through someone’s skull. The power to make another person crazy with pleasure instead of fear and pain, to have every cell in another person’s body at your thrall.

In high school I was the dog, always, and I never have felt comfortable or right in my body, and part of my whole exhibitionist thing has probably been a way of testing to see whether or not I really was this repulsive creature that I felt like for so long.

With the first kiss his mouth will taste of wormwood.