I went to the guest room and pretended to write. I hit the space bar again and again and again. My life story was spaces.

Only a few months into our marriage," writes the grandfather, "we started marking off areas in the apartment as 'Nothing Places,' in which one could be assured of complete privacy, we agreed that we never would look at the marked-off zones, that they would be nonexistent territories in the apartment in which one could temporarily cease to exist.

I made up my mind that nothing,, nothing was going to stop me Not even me.

What is being awake if not interpreting our dreams, or dreaming if not interpreting our wake?

I thought, it's a shame that we have to live, but it's a tragedy that we get to live only one life, because if I'd had two lives, I would have spent one of them with her.

She maintained a careful balance by her window, never allowing the men to come too close, never allowing them to stray too far.

Raising your kids vegetarian is a great way to encourage them to do the opposite of what you want! But the goal is not to have them have the same values that I have. It's to have them act on their values.