"Dans sa famille on dit que quelqu'un qui connait bien les proverbes ne peut pas être foncierement mauvais."

"The man of the hour has an air of great power"

"The dudes have envied him for so long"

"When you throw money onto a burning fire, it becomes fuel and nothing more."

"It slaked no thirst to say what love was like which came too late."

"His book, worthy on many levels, suffers from a pervasive mildness, a certain PBS-ness of the soul."

"The trees made a great show of tossing their limbs in the air, like tempestuous, newly beautiful adolescents."

"chasing the debris into the gutter"

"The ironwork on the balcony sags like rotten lace."

"a joint swings a psychic boom around you--it clears an instant space"

"I suppose this is why we travel..."

"assuring ourselves that the certified magnificence of what we see somehow includes or involves us, and we soak it all in, only to have it leak from us as we sleep between freshly laundered hotel sheets."

"Your structure's fine, my dust is better"

"It is hard to believe that life goes on and on for some people, golden and uninterrupted, a bolt of beautiful cloth endlessly unraveling."