Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.

Meriwether Lewis's last words were, 'I am not a coward, but I am so strong. So hard to die.' I don't doubt that it is, but it cannot be much harder than being left behind.

And so that is the question I leave you with in this final: What is your cause for hope?

It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined.

The thing about That Guy Is a Gigolo,' Radar says, 'I mean, the thing about it as a game, is that in the end it reveals a lot more about the person doing the imagining than it does about the person being imagined.

Keys show up when you reconcile yourself to the bus.

I was born into Bolívar's labyrinth, and so I must believe in the hope of Rabelais' Great Perhaps.