Adolescents are attracted to tragic heroes. That's why rock stars dress like homeless people. Adolescence is a fall. It's when every child becomes an….

In Lullabies, I wanted to capture what I remembered of the drunken babbling of unfortunate twelve-year-olds: their illusions, their ludicrously bad c….

Adolescents are still children in that they can't yet tell the difference between make believe and fiction..

The stars are always up in the sky...then when it is perfectly black, they feel less vulnerable and out they come..

Your superhuman power was to be able not to feel. Is it there inside everybody, this self that comes out while you are in captivity? You become the c….

The real first kiss is the one that tells you what it feels like to be an adult and doesn't let you be a child anymore. The first kiss is the one tha….

My breath in the cold air was bleach that accidentally spilled on a black t-shirt..

People give you a hard time about being a kid at twelve. They didn't want to give you Halloween candy anymore. They said things like, “If this were t….

Sometimes when you are standing still and it’s snowing, you think that you hear music. You can’t tell where it’s coming from either. I wondered if we….

Lonely children probably wrote the Bible..

In the temporary illumination of the headlights, the insects were scribbling out messages from God that we couldn't get..

Love is a big and wonderful idea, but life is made up of small things. As a kid, you have nothing to do with the way the world is run; you just have ….

We were broke in a way that only kids can be broke. Our toes were black with dye from wearing boots that weren't waterproof. We had infected ear lobe….

When you're a kid, if you watch 'The Jeffersons' with your family at seven o'clock, it seems like a natural phenomenon, like the sun setting. The uni….

Suddenly I realized that I wanted everything to be as it was when I was younger. When you're young enough, you don't know that you live in a cheap lo….

If you want to get a child to love you, then you should just go hide in the closet for three or for hours. They get down on their knees and pray for ….

On of the reasons that I wanted to study literature was because it exposed everything. Writers looked for secrets that had never been mined. Every wr….

I had a ludicrous childhood, but I feel that I was able to profit from a lot of the idiotic and unfortunate things that happened to me by turning the….

I have an artistic temperament, which is a really tragic thing..

The ground was silvery, as if some stars had fallen there..

It never occurs to you when you are very young to need something other than what your parents have to offer you..