Occupation: Writer Birth: November 27, 1964 Death: August 9, 2012
Everybody's got something. In the end, what choice does one really have but to understand that truth, to really take it in, and then shop for groceri….
I am no fun at all. In fact, I am anti-fun. Not as in anti-violence, but as in anti-matter. I am not so much against fun - although I suppose I kind ….
People are really trying their best. Just like being happy and sad, you will find yourself on both sides of the equation many times over your lifetim….
What remains of your past if you didn't allow yourself to feel it when it happened? If you don't have your experiences in the moment, if you gloss th….
Being a stranger was like being dead, and brought to mind how, in a book he had read that most folks misunderstood one common state: The flip side of….
Is there some lesson on how to be friends? I think what it means is that central to living a life that is good is a life that's forgiving. We're crea….
We’re creatures of contact regardless of whether/ we kiss or we wound. Still, we must come together..
Just think, the shoes I wouldn’t be caught dead in might actually turn out to be the shoes I am caught dead in..
Well into adulthood, writing has never gotten easier. It still only ever begins badly, and there are no guarantees that this is not the day when the ….
Altruism is innate, but it's not instinctual. Everybody's wired for it, but a switch has to be flipped..
In my brief glimpse of what is to come I realize how little I care to witness it. I have seen the future and I'm fairly relieved to say, it looks not….
There is nothing so cleansing or reassuring as a vicarious sadness..
If psychoanalysis was late 19th century secular Judaism’s way of finding spiritual meaning in a post-religious world, and retail is the late 20th cen….
I have managed to establish an identity that is based on my internal self, and for that I feel tremendously lucky..
The only thing that makes one an artist is making art. And that requires the precise opposite of hanging out; a deeply lonely and unglamorous task of….
Not being funny doesn't make you a bad person. Not having a sense of humor does..
Central to living a life that is good, is a life that's forgiving..
I have so little control over the act of writing that it's all I can do to remain conscious..
Youth is not wasted on the young, it is perpetrated on the young..
Unfortunately, there's no greater rhyme or reason as to why it would be me. And since there is no answer as to why me, it's not a question I feel rea….
In the window, I fantasize... about providing grown-ups and children alike with the greatest gift of all: insight..