James

“...I have come to be convinced that it is only the unbending observance of custom that sustains life in an urban circumstance.”
― Gordon Lish, What I Know So Far

“From time to time I show up in myself just long enough for people to know they are not in the room alone.”
― Gary Lutz, Stories in the Worst Way

“I had to piece together a diet for her, too. I knew which combinations of which foods on which days would rehang everything that was draped so delicately beneath her skin. In a matter of months, the body under the smock was organized anew, redistributed”
― Gary Lutz

“I've been within an inch of my life.”
― Gary Lutz