What I think," Chatty says, "is that if a man loves a woman more than a woman loves a man, then they're even.

Good leaders being scarce, following yourself is allowed.

I often feel the effects of people only after they leave me.

I assemble stories-me and a hundred million other people-at the sentence level. Not by coming up with a sweeping story line.

I am not quite myself, I think.But who here is quite himself? And yet there is a way in which we are all more ourselves than ever, I suppose.

It is possible to imagine a person so entirely that the image resists attempts to dislodge it.

I moved through the days like a severed head that finishes a sentence.