The American dream itself is declining.

We laughed and laughed, together and separately, out loud and silently, we were determined to ignore whatever needed to be ignored, to build a new world from nothing if nothing in our world could be salvaged, it was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn't think about my life at all.

It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us...on the inside, looking out.

The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer.

You do not have to utter anything you do not want to utter,” I told her, and she said, “Then I would never utter another word again.” “You do not have to do anything that you do not want to do.” “Then I would never do anything again.

I'm sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things.

Dear Anna, we will live in a home with no walls, so that everywhere we go will be our home.