Occupation: Novelist Birth: June 28, 1969
Listen. Look. Desire is a house. Desire needs closed space. Desire runs out of doors or windows, or slats or pinpricks, it can’t fit under the sky, t….
As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake..
I give boring people something to discuss over corn..
There's a gift in your lap and it's beautifully wrapped and it's not your birthday. You feel wonderful, you feel like somebody knows you're alive, yo….
We're all getting too smart. Our brains are just getting bigger and bigger, and the world dries up and dies when there's too much thought and not eno….
That's the thing with handmade items. They still have the person's mark on them, and when you hold them, you feel less alone. This is why everyone wh….
We hit the sidewalk, and dropped hands. How I wished, right then, that the whole world was a street..
To see someone you love, in a bad setting, is one of the great barometers of gratitude..
Light is good company, when alone; I took my comfort where I found it, and the warmest yellow bulb in the living-room lamp had become a kind of radia….
That at the same time of this very intimate act of concentrating so carefully on the details of our mother's palm and fingertips, he was also removin….
and I get refill number three or four and the wine is making my bones loose and it's giving my hair a red sheen and my breasts are blooming and my ey….
I felt the crumpled paper that had taken the place of my lungs expand as if released from a fist..
Many kids, it seemed, would find out that their parents were flawed, messed-up people later in life, and I didn't appreciate getting to know it all s….
I knew if I ate anything of hers again, it would lkely tell me the same message: help me, I am not happy, help me -- like a message in a bottle sent ….
...a Dorito asks nothing of you, which is its great gift. It only asks that you are not there..
You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground..
It is all about numbers. It is all about sequence. It's the mathematical logic of being alive. If everything kept to its normal progression, we would….
I don't think so, I don't agree. The most unbearable thing I think by far, she said, is hope..
You can ruin anything if you focus at it..
But I loved George in part because he believed me; because if I stood in a cold, plain room and yelled FIRE, he would walk over and ask me why..
Language is the ticket to plot and character, after all, because both are built out of language..