You have to be willing to spend time making things for no known reason.
Something can only become an illusion after disillusionment. Before that, it is something real.
It is true that I am a person with black pockets of evil and hatred in my heart. There are underground places inside of me
What is an idea made of? Of future, past and also meanwhile.
Dear Anyone Who Finds This, Do not blame the drugs.
Above me soft footsteps, the sound through the ceiling of a teenager haunted by a door to the night. My cousin Maybonne lights up a Salem, blows ghosts to the darkness, be it ever so humble, there’s no place like home.
I am hell with a knife and there is nothing I can really do about it but try and keep my mouth shut and try not to let it show.
A man who has been dead for a week in a hot trailer looks more like a man than you would first expect.
If it is your time love will track you down like a cruise missile.
I do love to eavesdrop. It’s inspirational, not only for subject matter but for actual dialogue, the way people talk.
If I didn’t try to eavesdrop on every bus ride I take or look for the humor when I go for a walk, I would just be depressed all the time.
Humor is such a wonderful thing, helping you realize what a fool you are but how beautiful that is at the same time.
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
Remember when you were in school and the teacher would put a picture under an overhead projector so you could see it on the wall? God, I loved that. Tellya the truth, I used to look at that beam of light and think it was God.
Playing and fun are not the same thing, though when we grow up we may forget that and find ourselves mixing up playing with happiness. There can be a kind of amnesia about the seriousness of playing, especially when we played by ourselves.
The minute you understand racism, you’re responsible for being racist. It’s like eating from the tree of knowledge.
My goal on my bucket list is to write a romantic comedy movie.
The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry.