I can become someone else, not out of pressure and desperation, but merely because a new life sounds fun or interesting or joyful.

There's worse that people can steal from you than money.

The girl traced the outline of her lover's shadow so she would always have a record of how he looked.

Sometimes the very best way to deal with unpleasant things is to depict them in ways that allow people to laugh at them and destroy the power of unsayable things, rather than refusing to acknowledge them.

In the world I see you are stalking elk through the damp canyon forests around the ruins of Rock feller Center. You'll wear leather clothes that will last you the rest of your life. You'll climb the wrist-thick kudzu vines that wrap the Sears Towers. And when you look down, you'll see tiny figures pounding corn, laying stripes of venison on the empty car pool lane of some abandoned superhighways.

Find out what you're afraid of and go live there.

No matter how much you love someone, you still want to have you own way.