And also, there are so many times when you need to make a quick escape, but humans don't have their own wings, or not yet, anyway, so what about a birdseed shirt?

To remember my values, I need to lose certain tastes and find other handles for the memories that they once helped me carry.

Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.

In the morning, when the nothing vase casts a something shadow, like the memory of someone you've lost, what can you say about that?

Imagine being served a plate of sushi. But this plate also holds all of the animals that were killed for your serving of sushi. The plate might have to be five feet across.

...people with nothing to declare carry the most.

I could tell that Mom was dreaming, but I didn't want to know what she was dreaming about, because I had enough of my own nightmares, and if she had been dreaming something happy, I would have been angry at her for dreaming something happy.