Do you happen to have another Condom? I think I've discovered the cure for headaches.

There is zero, and there is eternity, and there is mortality, but there is no ultimate.

Writing is like a little hole in reality that you can go through and you can get out and you can be someplace else for a while.

The water was glassy and calm, still candy-colored in the afterglow of sunset.

You'll consider what you did wrong & bookend your reflections with hunger - no supper, no breakfast.

That's the curse of the reading class. We can be seduced by a good story even at the most inopportune moments.

The essential and defining characteristic of childhood is not the effortless merging of dream and reality, but only alienation. There are no words for childhood's dark turns and exhalations. A wise child recognizes it and submits to the necessary consequences. A child who counts the cost is a child no longer.