She Asked Me Why I Always Had

What They Smell Isn't The Emotion Of Fear. What Dogs Can Smell Is The Changes In A Person's Skin That Suggest Fear To The Dog, Anxiety, The Way Your Skin Sweats, The Amount Of Uric Acid That Suddenly Pours Out Of Your Pores.

Adults Always Wonder What To Say And How To Say It When They're Talking To A Child. You Want To Be Wise, But All You Are Is A Child Yourself In A Larger Body. Nothing Is Ever What It Seems. The Things That You Think You Know Are Never Certain. I Know That Now. I Wish That I Didn't, But I Do.

My Family Was All Police And Hard Hats At The Refineries; They Didn't Know What To Think About Me. So I Became A Closet Writer.

People Want You To Be Ordinary. They Don't Like It When People Are Different. They Don't Like It When A Man Soars Over Their Heads While They Stand In The Dirt. People Hate You When You're Special; It Reminds Them Of Everything That They Aren't.

Pike Put Down The Cat. He Slid From Pike's Arms Like Molasses And Puddled At His Feet.