She’s still small and I still want to put her in my pocket.-Seven Chillman, classmate

Love the people who love you back.

God will break California from the surface of the continent like someone breaking off a piece of chocolate. It will become its own floating paradise of underweight movie stars and dot-commers, like a fat-free Atlantis...

She got icing all over her face. I think that’s why I like her. For the good stuff, she’s willing to get icing all over her face. Who wouldn’t want a girl like that?

Dalí painted melting clocks. I suppose if he’d asked around first, quizzed people if they wanted to see a picture of a melting clock, the answer might have been something obvious, like ‘Clocks don’t melt!’...

In despair, he left that farm and came to Bone Gap when it was a huge expanse of empty fields, drawn here by the grass and the bees and the strange sensation that this was...