I’m not used to girls, or familiar with their customs. I feel awkward around them, I don’t know what to say. I know the unspoken rules of boys, but with girls I sense that I am always on the verge of some unforeseen, calamitous blunder.

Gravity works in your life, the notion of free will works in your life, however problematic it may at times be.

So much better to travel than to arrive.

If you're a woman writer, sometime, somewhere, you will be asked: Do you think of yourself as a writer first, or as a woman first? Look out. Whoever asks this hates and fears both writing and women.

You aren't sick & unhappy only alive & stuck with it.

I could end this with a moral, as if this were a fable about animals, though no fables are really about animals.

The future of the codex book, with pages and so forth? A platform for transmitting narratives. There are others.