Longing on a large scale makes history.

Off-camera lives are unverifiable.

The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence.

Murray said, ´I don´t trust anybody´s nostalgia but my own. Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It´s a settling of grievances between the present and the past. The more powerful the nostalgia, the closer you come to violence. War is the form nostalgia takes when men are hard-pressed to say something good about their country.´

...Because what's the meaning of doing dishes if you're not driven by something beyond necessity.

I don’t want your candor. I want your soul in a silver thimble.

In these night recitations we create a space between things as we felt them at the time and as we speak them now. This is the space reserved for irony, sympathy and fond amusement, the means by which we rescue ourselves from the past.