Last words are always harder to remember when no one knows that someone's about to die.

Truth resists simplicity.

The dead are visible only in the terrible lidless eye of memory. The living, thank heaven, retain the ability to surprise and to disappoint. - Van Houten

But I was not in the band, because I suffer from the kind of tone deafness that is generally associated with actual deafness

Everything's uglier close up," she said. "Not you," I answered.

As far as all of our identities are dependent on how other people imagine us we are all making ourselves and each other up all the time

If we restructure things to see that the hero's journey is a degree in astrophysics rather than a journey to star in a reality show, that's a better world.