Missing someone, they say, is self-centered.I self-center you more than ever.

…there’s not enough of anything to go around except people and death.

If I were a magician who could make things possible, then pictures could talk while we painted them. If I were a magaician who could make things possible, then houses could keep their promises. And...

The silence leans forward.

…someone ought to invent a tool, a kind of plane to shave the lies away from stories and deception away from memories. I’m a collector of shavings.

The French always make our sort happy because, like us, they know how to love, they’re just as good at playing the accordion, and they’ve made a real art of their inability to bake proper...