I moved through the days like a severed head that finishes a sentence.

Just because you have stopped sinking doesn't mean you're not still underwater.

We can only die in the future, I thought; right now we are always alive.

Sometimes a flat-footed sentence is what serves, so you don't get all writerly: 'He opened the door.' There, it's open.

They say the smart dog obeys but the smarter dog knows when to disobey.

Good leaders being scarce, following yourself is allowed.

Wear your heart on the page, and people will read to find out how you solved being alive.

In my head there's a broken balcony I fall off of when I speak.

if it's true your life flashes past your eyes before you die, then it is also the truth that your life rushes forth when you are ready to start to truly be alive.

I sleep with a glass of water on the nightstand so I can see by its level if the coastal earth is trembling or if the shaking is still me.

I want to know everything about you, so I tell you everything about myself.

I did have a friend, ' I said.'And your friend trespassed upon you, ' the Wally replied.

Those things which are precious are saved only by sacrifice.

Jennifer where are you going, dear? Dinner will be ready in a minute. Your brothers found a few unattended five year olds.

I hate it when politics play too large part in the sport.

The prince is never going to come. Everyone knows that; and maybe sleeping beauty's dead.

Luck generally comes to those who look for it, and my notion is that it taps, once in a lifetime, at everybody's door, but if industry does not open it luck goes away.

Communism is the end of the economy as a separate and privileged field on which everything else depends while despising and fearing it.

"You are fairly smart," I said after a while. "You are fairly good at compliments," he answered.

The bicycle kick is not easy to do.

Love what you do, not the love you get for doing it.