Yep, My Daddy Was An Undependable Drunk.

I Used To Sleep With My Books In Piles All Over My Bed And Sometimes They Were The Only Thing Keeping Me Warm And Always The Only Thing Keeping Me Alive. Books Are The Best And Worst Defense.

We Can All Learn From Every Text. Reading The Work That Disgusts You Can Only Strengthen Your Core Beliefs. I Could Teach A Semester-long Course Based Only On Reading The Local Telephone Book. All Stories Can Be Taught In Valuable Ways.

Ialways Think It's Funny When Indians Celebrate Thanksgiving. I Mean, Sure, The Indians And Pilgrims Were Best Friends During The First Thanksgiving, But A Few Years Later, The Pilgrims Were Shooting Indians. So I'm Never Quite Sure Why We Eat Turkey Like Everybody Else. (101)

I Wanted To Do A Weird Book And Reestablish My Independent, Small-press Roots.

The Cello Looks Like A Woman To Me. And, You Know, The Curves. And So I Am In A Way, And It's Funny To Admit This, I Am Sexually Attracted To The Cello, The Curves Really Get Me. So As I Watched Him Play, You Know, Yo Yo Ma Is Sort Of Making Love To A Beautiful Woman.