Pain comes at me and I take it, chew it for a few minutes, and spit it back out. It's just not my thing anymore.

When I'm doing work online or on the computer, it's one thing. When I want to read, I want to go elsewhere, and I want to be away from the screen.

I had grown up as a fan of Studs Terkel. In Chicago he sort of looms large and is mentioned often.

Most people would trade everything they know, everyone they know- they'd trade it all to know they've been seen, and acknowledged, that they might even be remembered. We all know we die. We all know the world is too big for us to be significant. So all we have is the hope of being seen, or heard, even for a moment.

Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves.

We are all feeding from each other, all the time, every day.

Yes, a dark time passed over this land, but now there is something like light.