The silence grew deeper, so deep that if you listened carefully you might very well catch the sound of the earth revolving on its axis.

It was a short one-paragraph item in the morning edition.

Let the world move along as it pleased. If it had any business with him, it would be sure to tell him.

The world in books seemed so much more alive to me than anything outside. I could see things I'd never seen before. Books and music were my best friends. I had a couple of good friends at school, but never met anyone I could really speak my heart to.

Life might just be an absurd, even crude, chain of events and nothing more.

When I'm running I don't have to talk to anybody and don't have to listen to anybody. This is a part of my day I can't do without.

Once thing goes wrong, then the whole house of cards collapses. And there's no way you can extricate yourself. Until someone comes along to drag you out.