I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all.

But didn't you say you were satisfied with your life?" "Word games," I dismissed. "Every army needs a flag.

As long as I kept my body moving I could forget about the emptiness inside.

Please remember: things are not what they seem.

Fairness is a concept that holds only in limited situations. Yet we want the concept to extend to everything, in and out of phase. From snails to hardware stores to married life. Maybe no one finds it, or even misses it, but fairness is like love. What is given has nothing to do with what we seek.

Love with complications. Scenery was the last thing on my mind.

Symbolism and meaning are two separate things. I think she found the right words by bypassing procedures like meaning and logic. She captured words in a dream, like delicately catching hold of a butterfly’s wings as it flutters around. Artists are those who can evade the verbose.