Have you ever had that feeling—that you’d like to go to a whole different place and become a whole different self?

My heroes don't have anything special. They have something to tell other people but they don't know how, so they talk to themselves.

And as we live our lives we discover - drawing toward us the thin threads attached to each - what has been lost. I closed my eyes and tried to bring to mind as many beautiful lost things as I could. Drawing them closer, holding on to them.

she was beautiful and seemingly quite intelligent, what with her pentameter search system. There wasn't a reason in the world not to find her appealing.

You don't have to judge the whole world by your own standards. Not everybody is like you, you know.

Thanks to the long days of rain, the blades of grass glowed with a deep-green luster, and they gave off the smell of wildness unique to things that sink their roots into the earth.

Huge organizations and me don't get along. They're too inflexible, waste too much time, and have too many stupid people.