I both love and am terrified by Greg Van Eekhout’s vision of Los Angeles. I already want to go back.
Libertarians secretly worried that ultimately someone will figure out the whole of their political philosophy boils down to ‘get off my property.’ News flash: This is not really a big secret to the rest of us.
Being poor is people wondering why you didn’t leave.
I do think people of good will can have different opinions but still be coming not from a place of malice.
The more I want a book to be done, the faster I type because I just want to get it out.
I can describe to you the taste of government cheese.
Reddit is not a public utility or a public square; its a privately owned space on the Internet.
I don’t care whether I really exist or don’t, whether I’m real or fictional. What I want right now is to be the person who decides my own fate.
I didn’t mind getting old when I was young. It’s the being old now that’s getting to me.
Don’t discount that part of who he was just because you didn’t know it. None of us are all of who we are to any one person.
Fear sits and smiles and is predatory, immobile and silent and serene; an observer who conserves his energy and is content to wait.
I failed angst in high school. They let me graduate anyway.
There’s a difference between the fact that the universe is inherently unfair on a cosmic level, and the fact that life is unfair because people are actively making it so.
The story of how I left Huckleberry begins – as do all worthy stories – with a goat.
I thought I saw him once, but it turned out to be a yeti.
I’m not insane, sir. I have a finely calibrated sense of acceptable risk.
When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.
I did two things on my seventy-fifth birthday. I visited my wife’s grave. Then I joined the army.
When you’re a teenager and you’re in love, it’s obvious to everyone but you and the person you’re in love with.
It’s easier to miss her at a cemetery, where she’s never been anything but dead, than to miss her at all the places where she was alive.