Gary Lutz Quotes

They weren't hours, these classes; they weren't even forty-five minutes--they were "periods," which sounded to me as if they were each at once a little era and then the end you had to see decisively put to it.

Here is a story in the worst way. I have no business being anywhere in it. It comes between me and the life I have coming.

From time to time I show up in myself just long enough for people to know they are not in the room alone.

A calendar was hung in the kitchen as if to say: Expect more of the same.

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

You get tired of always wondering anew why life has to take the place of youth.