If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand...... But until we find this new way of speaking, until we can find a nonapproximate vocabulary, nonsense words are the best thing we've got. Ifactifice is one such word.

To feel alone is to be alone.

It seems entirely possible to me that horrible things can be going on without us becoming horrible people.

I took the world into me, rearranged it, and sent it back out as a question: "Do you like me?

I zipped myself all the way into the sleeping bag of myself, not because I was hurt, and not because I had broken something, but because they were cracking up.

She wants to know if I love her, that's all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but the knowledge that love is there, like new batteries in the flashlight in the emergency kit in the hall closet.

I wondered, for the first time in my life, if life was worth all the work it took to live. What exactly made it worth it?