So I’m alone. I have no one. Is that what you’re telling me?” - Junco, Range (to be published April 2013)

When I wake I ask myself, how much longer before they will just let me die?" - Tier, Clutch

Every good thing that comes is accompanied by trouble.

I can almost understand why people leap from bridges.

At weekends, I've been going on long but steady-paced four-and-a-half-hour bike rides.

But sometimes living in denial was the only way to keep a man from going on a killing spree.

I like these nonfiction books where everything that is interesting about them is lost in that catch-all description of their "about"-ness.

If people stand in a circle long enough, they'll eventually begin to dance.

My heart is a colored pencil but my brain is an eraser

Acting is an aesthetic career, which is annoying.

Humanity is the sin of God

As the body lives by breathing, so the soul lives by believing.