No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just come out the other side. Or you don't.

Outside, a gusty October breeze was combing leaves from the trees and sending them across her backyard in colorful skitters.

This is how a man looks when he's deciding that the risk of death is better than the risk of change.

To write is human, to edit is divine.

I have to remind myself that some birds aren’t meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright.

Some guys-a lot of guys-don't believe what they are seeing, especially if it gets in the way of what they want to eat or drink or believe. Me, I don't believe in God. But if i saw him, I would. I wouldn't just go around saying, "Jesus, that was a great special effect." The definition of an asshole is a guy who doesn't believe what he's seeing.

Madness is a kind of mental suicide.