Boys do not have the monopoly in Staring Business, after all.

Eternity bids thee to forget.

We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreperably broken.

I told him they built a statue of Schultz, and then he said that a monument is cold comfort to a dead man, and then I said that the statue was built not for Schultz, but for us--to remind us how to be human.

I was a fairly shy person - not the hand raising type.

It is very sad to me that some people are so intent on leaving their mark on the world that they don’t care if that mark is a scar.

In the contemporary world where things fall apart, and the centre cannot hold, you have to imagine a community where there is no centre. Hank, at the end of this year I started thinking that a lot of life is about doing things that don’t suck with people who don’t suck.