I sit watching the brown oceanic waves of dry country rising into the foothills and I weep monotonously, seasickly. Life is not like the dim ironic stories I like to read, it is like a daytime serial on television. The banality will make you weep as much as anything else.
Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You: 13 Stories (ed. Vintage, 2011) - ISBN: 9780307814579