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If everyone’s lost on the roads, you might as well fly. Enjoy your life.

He fell to the floor and begged the gods. The gods were silent.

At age eighteen, Deirdre packed her bags and moved to New York City.

I recoil from the certitude that religion can give a person; it’s horrific.

Waiting for a cure, waiting for the closeout sale, the black sail.

Many times I’ve stood at the lip of this river and wanted to crawl in.

“Even though we aren’t carrying out the deed, we are the most responsible.”

The appendix on political correctness explains why none of that is funny.

I had the tongue of an adder and my heart was black with rage and hate.

We have harvested nothing more than the stench of middle age.

One door teaches to read for meaning and pleasure. Another shuts.

I dream of snakes coming out of me and through the house to find her.

she was sixteen, and swimming. she was seventy-one, and soft.

Their mother was the real beauty of the family, or so everyone said.

Tell me our species matters more, tell me that, and I, I will crawl back.

“Please, please, please,” she begged the class. “Please don’t do it.”

The problem with my mother is that she thinks everyone a fool.

Howard found himself dancing the merengue with a buxom Puerto Rican.

I tried mightily, but no longer could I ladle those ancient words into the air.

do you asks pretty sue know what I love what pretty please tell us

The elevator inside him begins to fall with dizzying speed.

The pillow into which her face was turned muffled her voice.

I didn’t trust her. Relationships like ours aren’t built on trust.

Children are never old enough to understand their parents’ affairs.

To resist him, I danced how he wanted, but made a mockery of it.

That’s why Mam drinks whiskey. That’s why he drinks whiskey too.

He’s weirdly hard to pay attention to, even when he’s threatening you.

Why do girls want to cheerlead? Don’t they know it objectifies women?

I have given everything at the wrong time, to the wrong people.