It was a curious feeling, that something could be so close and so distant at the same time.

Either you have the feeling or you don't. Hawk Davies

A bolt from the blue.

I think if I were walking someplace and I saw a corpse my brain would tell me it was a million things before I believed it was a corpse.

We are respecting our parents' wishes....They didn't want to shelter us from the world's treacheries. They wanted us to survive them.

It turns out she is Canadian, my editor, and so she drinks like a fish. So she wasn't a lightweight at all. And in the morning, she said that the idea still seemed like a good one, and here we are.

A good thing to do when one is sitting, eating, and resting is to have a conversation.