In the end, what makes a book valuable is not the paper it's printed on, but the thousands of hours of work by dozens of people who are dedicated to creating the best possible reading experience for you.

And I will forget her, yes. That which came together will fall apart slowly, but she will forgive my forgetting, just as I forgive her for forgetting me and the Colonel and nothing but herself and her mom in those last moments as she spent as a person.

Youth is counted sweetest by those who are no longer young.

Once you think a thought, it is extremely difficult to unthink it.

Half-drunk on well-creamed gas station coffee and the exhilarating loneliness of a freeway in nighttime.

No matter how hard you kick, no matter how high you get, you can't go all the way around.

We Play the broken string of our instruments one last time