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How satisfied you are with your life is not at all the same thing as how you feel while you are living it.

In the House, the state’s delegation will comprise 34 Democrats, or more than 15 percent of the Democratic membership.

Chew on that one for a while, America.

Currently, Sonya Chung, one of my best buddies, and I are in disagreement.

It wants every word, all the lingo: idioms and euphemisms, sacred or profane, dead or alive, the King’s English or the street’s.

At that point, I had been out of the writing life for so long that I had felt like that life was dead to me, so that fellowship meant everything.

If each foot took us back a year,
the dark below would be
immaculate...

Tourist man: Pardon me, officer, can you tell us where Orchard Street is?
Cop: See that naked Chinese guy?
Tourist man: Ummm...Yeah.
Cop: Walk down to him and make a left.

"I just—Christ, I just need a goddamn minute, you know?" he said.

Human rights groups and journalists have documented hundreds of cases of detainee abuse from Guantanamo, Afghanistan, and Iraq since early 2002.