I am here. I am in the present tense. I’m not always here, and sometimes here is a very difficult place. Sometimes it is a labyrinth, or a Minotaur, or a rope I can neither...

Keep making noise, I prayed, laughing. Bang drums. Clamor and ring bells for I cannot stand to hear the tired beating of this almost heart.

There are things you do when you are a teenager, or a dancer, or just a girl, I guess. You cut your food up in special ways, or you cut yourself, or paper dolls. You...

I made the sympathetic face, and the interested face, and even the impressed face. I did not say, ‘In the name of all that is holy, cease this incessant drivel, you pretentious ass.

When you step from the wings onto the stage you go from total blackness to a blinding hot glare. After a moment you adjust, but there is that moment. like being inside lightning.

Talent equaled desirability. Talent trumped good looks or a halfway decent personality. Talent was a personality.

If only we could crawl inside our dreams and live there. Why can’t I live inside my dream?

You shouldn’t ask for forgiveness. Because if you ask someone to forgive you, and they do, then that’s twice that you’ve taken something from them. First the betrayal, and then the absolution.