I'm not an escapist, but the value of language is that it can create places that did not exist before. And so language for me doesn't reflect the wor….

When I was a kid my primary goal in life was to find a book that was alive. Not alive in the human sense, but like a thing that would send me to a pl….

It is important not to show too many inches at once..

I use the word "god" a lot, and I'm not sure if I know what I believe god is. I don't believe that when we die, that's it. It's almost like a logical….

I think language is a system that we have devised to negotiate a series of more amorphous entities. It's a layer you can use to see where those thing….

So many doors forever. There were never enough. Each door had several locks. One lock was combination. Another required keys. Another was a simple si….

What if life after death is all based within memory: you die, and you don't ascend on a bed of clouds to Jesus, but your brain has a terrain that it ….

About twenty pages into Luke B. Goebel's Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours, I realized I was reading with one hand holding my forehead and one….

I am a serial monogamist of sorts, and have been with my girlfriend for almost four years. In imagining my brain back to worlds where I might be arou….

I'm really close to my mom, but things with my dad have been different. He has dementia and watching him change, I've actually started to think that ….

I like smartasses, because I can be smartass back and rashy..

Reality is overrated to me. Everyone spends enough time on the computer, eating, going out to bars. Why do I need to read a book about that?.

I write all day every day, so when I feel unproductive, it magnifies everything else..

My love is inside me where my fat was..

I always want to sleep on the third date..