Michael Zadoorian

“The memories we take to the ends of our lives have no real rhyme or reason, especially when you think of the…

— Michael Zadoorian

“Why does the world have to destroy anything that doesn't fit in? We still can't figure out that this is the most…

— Michael Zadoorian

“I think about what the man at the Coney joint said. He was right. We are the people who stay. We stay…

— Michael Zadoorian

“But what I do love about this road is how the gaudy becomes grand, how tastelessness is a way of everyday life”

— Michael Zadoorian

“Know this: even if you’re like us and still doddering around above ground, someone out there from your past is probably pretty…

— Michael Zadoorian

“I thought that nothing enormously bad or good had happened to me during my life. All the normal things had occurred. I…

— Michael Zadoorian

“…this is the problem with photographs. After a while, you can’t remember if you’re recalling the actual memory or the memory of…

— Michael Zadoorian

“We pass a church with a massive blue neon cross, and I am spiritually lifted by feelings of great religiosity. No, I’m…

— Michael Zadoorian

“The last slide is Main Street at night, with the castle lit silver blue in the background. In the sky, fireworks are…

— Michael Zadoorian

“Anyone who never met a man he didn't like just isn't trying hard enough.”

— Michael Zadoorian

“After a while, just staying alive becomes a full-time job. No wonder we need a vacation.”

— Michael Zadoorian

“Hi lover," he says to me, completely forgetting what happened before. He knows who I am. He knows that I am the…

— Michael Zadoorian

“I am constantly mystified by what John ends up remembering… I just don’t understand why he’s able to hang on to information…

— Michael Zadoorian

“It doesn’t upset me to think about dying. What upsets me is the idea of John being alone after his spell passes.…

— Michael Zadoorian

“You worry about your parents, siblings, spouses dying, yet no one prepares you for your friends dying. Every time you flip through…

— Michael Zadoorian

“This is exactly the sort of thing that makes traveling wonderful for me, the reason I defied everyone. The two of us…

— Michael Zadoorian

“Just then, a little hopped-up Japanese car zips up next to us. It’s bright yellow with loud, high-pitched exhaust pipes and a…

— Michael Zadoorian

“You spend your life so worried about what others think, when in reality, people mostly don't think. On the few occasions when…

— Michael Zadoorian

“I haven’t been out driving at this time of night in many years, much less in an unfamiliar area. These are the…

— Michael Zadoorian

“The sad truth is, John and I and the kids only took Route 66 once on our trips to Disneyland. Our family,…

— Michael Zadoorian