We are the stories we tell ourselves

Right there is the usefulness of migraine, there in that imposed yoga, the concentration on the pain. For when the pain recedes, ten or twelve hours later, everything goes with it, all the hidden resentments, all the vain anxieties. The migraine has acted as a circuit breaker, and the fuses have emerged intact. There is a pleasant convalescent euphoria.

I have already lost touch with a couple of people I used to be

You have to make sure you have the characters you want. That's really the most complicated part.

Time is the school in which we learn.

The last sentence in a piece is another adventure. It should open the piece up.

In theory momentos serve to bring back the moment. In fact they serve only to make clear how inadequately I appreciated the moment when it was here. How inadequately I appreciated the moment when it was here is something else I could never afford to see.