Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history... Listen being dead is not worse than being alive. It is different though. You could say the view is larger.

Tomorrow these villagers would carry their secret icons into the church without any priest and light the candles themselves, moving together in single-minded grace. Like the school of the fish, so driven to righteousness they could flout the law, declare the safety of their souls, then go home and destroy the evidence.

Children can be your heartache. But that doesn't matter, you have to go on and have them . . . it works out.

The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.

You know what the issue is? Do you want to know? It's what these guys have decided to call America. They have the audacity to say, 'There, you sons of bitches, don't lay a finger on it. That is a finished product.'" "But any country is still in the making. Always. That's just history, people have to see that.

We tap our toes to chaste love songs about the silvery moon without recognizing them as hymns to copulation.

It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.