The writer, as I see it, has the right of way, so it's up to the reader to look out.

You get tired of always wondering anew why life has to take the place of youth.

Mike Topp is a disablingly funny writer--a miniaturist of nervous precisions, our supreme abridger of metropolitan startlement and inner fidgetry. He dazes and graces us.

What could be worse than having to be seen resorting to your own life.

My writing isn’t a career or a craft or a hobby or anything like that. It is more like a tiny annex to my life, a little crawl space in which I occasionally end up by accident in the dark.

If I have a problem, it is this: there is a store where everything costs a dollar.

I was a great many far cries from myself.

I've been within an inch of my life.

I prefer the sorts of words that go their own way and are very choosy about where they end up. They don't fall for the first frillily syllabled thing to come along.

Desks are terrible places, no matter how many wheels a chair might have. You can't do much about how drawers fill up.

Dylan Nice's Other Kinds is the most extraordinary short-story-col lection debut I have read in years. It is a book to be memorized.

To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness

I know you . . .That you hold insideVast possibilities and dreamsAnd limitless love.

Living is deeper than just life

And then a great thing in my life was going to India.

People have a way of thinking that everything is finished when the very best of all may yet be in store.

I realize Jubilee is a bit of a stripper name. You probably think I have heard the call of the pole.

Prejudice is a form of untruthfulness, and untruthfulness is an insidious form of injustice.

Surfing frees everything up. It's just the best soul fix. Life should be stress free, and that's what surfing is all about.

When the audition for 'Cats' came up, even though I'd been making pop records, it felt like something I was attracted to.

When Donald Trump says women should be punished or Mexicans are rapists and criminals or John McCain's not a hero, he is showing you who he is.