I think play must have been invented so we wouldn't go mad thinking about certain things.

The cure might be worse than the problem

Now I wonder if it means that the future is a place, or like a place, that I could go to; that is go to in some way other than just getting older.

absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird

I sit quietly and think about my mom. It's funny how memory erodes, If all I had to work from were my childhood memories, my knowledge of my mother would be faded and soft, with a few sharp memories standing out.

You're the oddest person I've ever met, you couldn't get rid of me if you tried.

He would say her name over and over until it devolved into meaningless sounds - mah REI kuh, mah REI kuh - it became an entry in a dictionary of loneliness.