“When the lights are about to burn out and start flickering, it’s like I’m blinking without blinking.”

“The phrase “In the blink of an eye” is misleading, because one eye closing and opening is not a blink—it’s a wink.”

“A disobedient child is one who blinks of his own volition, without being told to or even looked at. That’s usually when I get out the Behavior Cloth (a blindfold).”

“I like eye contact, but please don’t blink when my eyeballs are touching yours.”

“I love women’s breasts. I love how they don’t blink when I stare at them.”

“The lights might have dimmed, but I blinked at that moment so I didn’t notice. I also didn’t notice her love, probably because she never showed or told me.”

“I wish I had eyes that changed colors from blue to gray, and then after I cried, to all the colors of the rainbow, because then I’d just sit in front of the mirror writing poems that alternated between extremely sad poems, to poems about light refraction and blinking promises.”