Don’t Let Me Be Lonely

"Peckinpah gives the final shoot-out in which they all die a kind of orgasmic rush that releases all of us from the cinematic or, more accurately, the American fantasy that we will survive no matter what."

"My desire is to give the pills away as I might a pair of shoes I have never worn. I want to give them to a friend, to someone who could decide to throw them away."

"He could barely get out of bed. That’s what he said so he might have meant he wasn’t getting out of bed."

"She did say, in so many words, that what alerts, alters."

"In real life the looking away is the apology, despite the fact that when I look away I almost always feel guilty; I do not feel as if I have apologized. Instead I feel as if I have created a reason to apologize, I feel the guilt of having ignored that thing—the encounter."

"Because the foundations for loneliness begin in the dreamscapes you create. Their resemblance to reality reflects disappointment first."