It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
The girl has a funny way of romanticizing things.
Tin House magazine is a port in the storm for people who love language. It is unfailingly excellent, and committed to publishing new voices in addition to delivering freaky-fresh work from established writers.
I would love to travel around the world working for a travel company taking students abroad on cultural immersion trips.
America's great talent, I think, is to generate desires that would never have occurred, natively,. . . and to make those desires so painfully real that money becomes a fiction, an imaginary means to some concrete end.
I'm probably a lot closer than perhaps the contents of my early fiction suggest to a jaded Denny's waitress with smoker's-lung-black humor than a ghost hunter.
At the end of the block where I used to live in Coconut Grove in Miami, there's a swampy area, a no-name alcove with a little mangrove estuary. It's beautiful.
I follow my nose. It’s as simple as that.
Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.
If you don't watch your figure, you'll have more figure to watch.
Be proud of yourself. Try to eat well. . . and when you cheat, enjoy it!