There is supercomputer somewhere in the Nevada desert whose sole function is to count the number of times that I have said the following, because it ….

Almost any age is better than twenty-two..

I find life itself provides ample and sufficient tests of my valor and mettle: illness; betrayal; fruitless searches for love; working for the abusiv….

But if one's dreams having to come true was the only referendum on whether they were beautiful, or worth dreaming, well then, no one would wish for a….

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 ….

Not being funny doesn't make you a bad person. Not having a sense of humor does..

I have so little control over the act of writing that it's all I can do to remain conscious..

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….

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….

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….

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 ….

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….

There is nothing so cleansing or reassuring as a vicarious sadness..

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….

Central to living a life that is good, is a life that's forgiving..

I have managed to establish an identity that is based on my internal self, and for that I feel tremendously lucky..

Youth is not wasted on the young, it is perpetrated on the young..

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….

In the window, I fantasize... about providing grown-ups and children alike with the greatest gift of all: insight..

Just think, the shoes I wouldn’t be caught dead in might actually turn out to be the shoes I am caught dead in..