My Wife And I Left New York

From A Distance, It Makes Perfect Sense That The People And The Things You Think Will Save You Are The Very Ones That Have The Power To Disappoint You Most Bitterly, But Up Close It Can Hit You As A Bewildering Surprise.

There's Not Some Finite Amount Of Pain Inside Us. Our Bodies And Minds Just Keep Manufacturing More Of It.

Once You'd Broken Through That Invisible Barrier That Separates One Person From Another, You Were Connected Forever, Whether You Liked It Or Not.

Sooner Or Later We All Lose Our Loved Ones. We All Have To Suffer, Every Last One Of Us.

I Was Writing Very Early, Like I Was Involved In Our High School Literary Magazine, Which Was Called 'pariah.' The Football Team Was The Bears, And The Literary Magazine Was 'pariah.' It Was Great. It Was Definitely A Real Sub-culture. But I Wrote Stories For Them.