We shared the smile of recognizing ourselves in each other.

I see myself as someone who makes things. Definitions have never done anything but constrain.

I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.

She wanted nothing more than someone to miss, to touch, with whom to speak like a child, with whom to be a child.

Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on. I hope you never have to think about anything as much as I think about you.

I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love.

Suddenly Yankel was overcome with a fear of dying, stronger than he felt when his parents passed of natural causes, stronger than when his only brother was killed in the flour mill or when his children died, stronger even than when he was a child and it first occurred to him that he must try to understand what it could mean not to be alive -- to be not in darkness, not in unfeeling -- to be not being, not to be.