There are so many doors to open. I am impatient to begin." --Charlie Gordan

Just leave me alone. I'm not myself. I'm falling apart, and I don't want you here.

Thank God for books and music and things I can think about." --Charlie Gordan

I was her bestist pupil in the Beckman School for retarted adults and I tryed the hardist becus I reely wantd to lern I wantid it more even then pepul who are smarter even then me.

The universe was exploding, each particle away from the next, hurtling us into dark and lonely space, eternally tearing us away from each other - child out of the womb, friend away from friend, moving from each other, each through his own pathway towards the goal-box of solitary death.

Strange about learning; the farther I go the more I see that I never knew even existed.

I may not have all the time I thought I had.