You thought you were found but you realize that you were lost, and someday you may discover that you're lost now.

To apologize for your personal absolutes, for what Sandy Pinter calls your “Core Attachments,” means apologizing for your very existence.

I preferred that my bad dreams be vague.

Love is a powerful painkiller.

When Loughner himself speaks and we find out his real influences are Spiderman, 'Gnome Chomsky,' Taylor Swift, and Dr. Bronner, then what?

A writer is someone who tells you one thing so someday he can tell his readers another thing: what he was thinking but declined to say, or what he would have thought had he been wiser. A writer turns his life into material, and if you're in his life, he uses yours, too.

In the age of networked everything, life moves sideways and covers lots of ground while barely touching the earth.