There’d be no story without complications. With nothing to overcome, we’d die unstoried deaths.
Hot PinkMaybe fate's arithmetic is so diffuse that it's not arithmetic at all.
How They Met, and Other StoriesParenting is something that happens mostly while you’re thinking of something else.
Homeland and Other StoriesRecognizing who you are is not the subtext of a life. It's the main point.
House of Skin: Prize-Winning StoriesIt was always the poor grass that suffered most when two kings went to war.
The Hungry Stones and Other StoriesThis is the story of America. Everybody's doing what they think they're supposed to do.
On the Road: The Original ScrollIt is unfortunate for the gods that, unlike us, they cannot commit suicide.
Rashomon and Seventeen Other StoriesThere was a point to this story, but it has temporarily escaped the chronicler's mind.
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish