I think there's great value to the Associated Press and to Reuters, but if you wanted to generate original content, maybe written by local writers, it just takes a little bit of openness to open your pages up to a wider freelance writer pool, and then you might find new voices and a wider array of voices, and definitely more original content that can't be found anywhere else.

The only infallible truth of our lives is that everything we love in life will be taken from us.

I was feeling everything too much. Everything pulled at my eyes. I spent hours floating in pools.

Then he got more books. He saved all the books.

Every time my brain parks the car neatly in the driveway, my mouth drives through the back of the garage.

People say I talk slowly. I talk in a way sometimes called laconic. The phone rings, I answer, and people ask if they've woken me up. I lose my way in the middle of sentences, leaving people hanging for minutes. I have no control over it. I'll be talking, and will be interested in what I'm saying, but then someone-I'm convinced this what happens-someone-and I wish I knew who, because I would have words for this person-for a short time, borrows my head. Like a battery is borrowed from a calculator to power a remote control, someone, always, is borrowing my head.

I had the sensation that I might always be running like this, that I would always have to run, and that I would always be able to run.