We're living longer, we social network alone with our screens, and our depth of feeling gets shallower. Soon it'll be nothing but a tide pool, then a….

Life was a freight train barreling toward just one stop, our loved ones streaking past our windows in blurs of color and light. There was no holding ….

His characters are ravaged, beaten. They walk through infernos and emerged charred doves..

I hate how the people who really get you are the ones you can never hold on to for very long. And the ones who don’t understand you at all stick arou….

Always live your life with your biography in mind," Dad was fond of saying. "Naturally, it won't be published unless you have a Magnificent Reason, b….

Because every one of us has our box, a dark chamber stowing the thing that lanced our heart. It contains what you do everything for, strive for, woun….

Making love to Aurelia was like rummaging through a card catalog in a deserted library, searching for one very obscure, little-read entry on Hungaria….

May you walk a lighted path. May you fight for truth - your truth, not someone else's - and may you understand, above all things, that you are the mo….

Within every elaborate lie, a kernel of truth..

He said you couldn't pretend the terrible things in life didn't happen. You can't clean it up. You keep all the refuse and the scars. It's how you le….

Those around you can have their novellas, sweet, their short stories of cliché and coincidence, occasionally spiced up with tricks of the quirky, the….

Sovereign. Deadly. Perfect..

I was aware now, as ever, that between all people there were First Times You See Them and Last Times you See Them..

Just when you think you've hit rock bottom, you realize you're standing on another trapdoor..

Well, life isn't a cakewalk, is it?! Eighty-nine percent of the world's most valuable art was created by men living in rat-infested flats. You think ….

Dad's Theory of Arrogance--that everyone always assumes they're the Principal Character of Desire and/or Loathing in everybody else's Broadway Play..

It’s hard, in America, not to equate ‘happiness’ with ‘things’..

But most critically, sweet, never try to change the narrative structure of someone else's story, though you will certainly be tempted to, as you watc….

Happiness is a hound dog in the sun. We aren't on Earth to be happy, but to experience incredible things. - Hannah Schneider.

Always live your life with your biography in mind..

It's kind of funny...the moments on which life hinges. I think growing up you always imagine your life - your success - depends on your family and ho….