Weeks passed like boats waiting to sail into the starless dawn, we were full of aimless endless darkness.

Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose, keep in touch (or don't), care about birthdays, waste and lose time, brush their teeth, feel nostalgia, scrub stains, have religions and political parties and laws, wear keepsakes, apologize years after an offense, whisper, fear themselves, interpret dreams, hide their genitalia, shave, bury time capsules, and can choose not to eat something for reasons of conscience. The justifications for eating animals and for not eating them are often identical: we are not them.

I was more alone than if I had been alone.

But I dig Negroes. I dig them all the way.

Your dad didn't die, so I won't be able to explain it to you.

He removed several pages of death certificates, which were picked up by another breeze and sent into the trees. Some would fall with the leaves that September. Some would fall with the trees generations later.

I’d rather somebody hate what I do than be indifferent to it.