Willem tsk-tsks. "You Americans are so violent. I'm Dutch. The worst I will do is run her over with a bicycle.

He showed me how to get lost, and then I showed myself how to get found.

If I felt like a fish out of water in my family, I felt like a fish on Mars in Adam’s circle.

Hate me. Devastate me. Annihilate me. Re-create me. Re-create me. Won't you, won't you won't you re-create me.

She left for Juilliard the day after Labor Day. I drove her to the airport. She kissed me good-bye. She told me that she loved me more than life itself. Then she stepped through security. She never came back.

Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you.

Loving someone is such an inherently dangerous act. And yet, love, that’s where safety lives.