What if I never stop inventing?
I can only hold on to the things I want to lose.
As a writer, putting words on the page is how I pay attention.
I realized that your mother couldn't see the emptiness, she couldn't see anything...All of the words I'd written to her over all of those years, had I never said anything to hear at all?
The end of the world has come often, and continues to come.
The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer.