An Invisible Client

by Victor Methos

“You’ll come to find as you get older that money loses its luster, and the only thing that matters are the people in your life.

“Remember one thing above anything else: if you say something confidently enough, people will believe you. Even if you’re wrong.”

“That’s the beauty of poetry,”

“That language is inadequate to describe life. So poetry just tries to bring up emotions. Just read it and see how you feel. If you feel something, then the poem worked.”

“What’s it feel like to kiss a girl?”

“It’s like . . . if you take everything fun that’s ever happened to you and you wrap it up in a ball and put it on your lips, that’s what it feels like. You can feel her heart beating against yours, and it seems like the rest of the world disappears. You don’t remember what you have to do tomorrow or anything like that. It’s just you and her.”

Since I was a kid, I’d held an unshakeable belief that if a person wanted something bad enough, the universe would provide it.

Plato wrote that the gods were jealous of man’s powers after the days of creation, that we had four arms and four legs and two heads, and were full of love and intelligence and grit, so they split us in half and threw our halves all around the earth. The point of life, then, is to find your other half and become whole again. The tragedy of life is if you find them and don’t hold on.”