If your train's on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.

The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud.

It was all those biographies in me yelling, 'We want out. We want to tell you what we've done to you.'

Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.

We didn't starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.

We can't all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.

Charity you can give even when you haven't got.