No one gets to tell you what your life means!

And if a moment exists only in one's perception anyway, then perhaps the rush of feeling he has now is THE MOMENT, and not merely its shadow.

He considered it a shame when people couldn't grasp the infinite-a failure not just of imagination but of simple vision.

What business does memory have with time?

The neighborhoods I grew up in were poor and full of drug users. I don't think you have to look that hard to find those kinds of lives. But I also don't think you have to have experienced it really close to be able to empathize.

This is what happens when you live in dreams, he thought: you dream this and you dream that and you sleep right through your life.

There was a time when self-promotion was considered so verboten, especially for authors.