Can you believe it? Fifty miles from McDonald’s. I didn’t think there was anywhere in the world that was fifty miles from McDonald’s.
Here, far from our homes, we will be forgotten by our gods.
I never fell. I don’t care what they say. I’m still doing my job, as I see it.
Even the proudest spirit can be broken with love.
Children’s fiction is the most important fiction of all.
I was kidnapped by aliens, they came down from outer space with ray guns, but I fooled them by wearing a wig and laughing in a foreign accent, and I escaped.
Too soon, the sun will rise.
And he waited. It was only for a few seconds, but it felt like a small forever.
You can’t trust other people. If it’s important, you have to do it yourself.
Once, I was a poet, and, like all poets, I spent too long in the Kingdom of Dreams.
Mr. Vandemar showed them his teeth, demonstrating his sunny and delightful disposition. It was unquestionably the most horrible thing Richard had ever seen.
He felt her heart beating against his chest. The moment began to transmute, and he wondered if there was something he should do. He wondered if he should kiss her. He wondered if he wanted to kiss her, and he realized that he truly didn’t know.
Chicago happened slowly, like a migraine.
On the whole, stories don’t write themselves.
There were people you could hug, and then there was Silas.
I’m just going to stay here, in the darkness under the arch. I can hear you all out there, trip-trapping, trip-trapping over my bridge. Oh yes, I can hear you. But I’m not coming out.
This is a book for every fiddler who has realized halfway through playing an ancient Scottish air that the Ramones “I Wanna Be Sedated” is what folk music is really all about, and gone straight into it.
We do what we do, because of who we are. If we did otherwise, we would not be ourselves.
It’s not hard to own something. Or everything. You just have to know that it’s yours, and then be willing to let it go.
The boy had the towering arrogance only seen in the greatest of artists and all nine-year-old boys.