Michael Nava

“Her work was indeed elliptical, she left out everything that was essential, including logic and meaning. Her words neither described nor observed…

— Michael Nava

“Is that why you do good deeds, Richie? To shorten your time in Purgatory?' 'Oh, honey,' he said, brushing lint from an…

— Michael Nava

“Grief is half of justice," she said, and added, a moment later, "the other half is a hope.”

— Michael Nava

“And what right do you have to judge me? He was nothing to you but a drink." "No," I said. "I loved…

— Michael Nava

“Only very young people believe that change is always for the better.”

— Michael Nava

“Bad feelings have a life of their own.”

— Michael Nava

“We had not liked each other much at first. He mistook my shyness for arrogance and I failed to see that his…

— Michael Nava

“I'm sorry about today." "Do you want to talk about it?" "I was bored and lonely." "Some would call that the human…

— Michael Nava

“You know, Henry, we're the only people who get born into the enemy camp. I mean, black babies get born into black…

— Michael Nava

“People are basically screwed-up and often the best you can do for them is listen, hear the worst and then tell it's…

— Michael Nava

“La petite mort - that's what the French called orgasm. They believed that semen is sort of concentrated blood so that each…

— Michael Nava

“She's a good poet but a very neurotic woman." "Don't the two go together?”

— Michael Nava

“What I remembered most clearly from my first sex with another man was the unexpected tenderness. It disturbed me - disoriented me.…

— Michael Nava