For the rest of my life I'll be thinking about that hamburger. I'll be sitting there at the counter, holding it in my hands with tears streaming down my cheeks. The waitress will be looking away because she doesn't like to see kids crying when they are eating hamburgers.

Probably the closest things to perfection are the huge absolutely empty holes that astronomers have recently discovered in space. If there's nothing there, how can anything go wrong?

Sometimes life is merely a matter of coffee and whatever intimacy a cup of coffee affords.

Our names were made for us in another century.

I daydream about a high school where everybody plays the harmonica: the students, the teachers, the principal, the janitor and the cook in the cafeteria.

The heart is something else. Nobody knows what's going to happen,' I said

There are seductions that should be in the Smithsonian Institute, right next to The Spirit of St. Louis.