Time folds you in its arms and gives you one last kiss, and then it flattens you out and folds you up and tucks you away until it's time for you to become someone else's past time, and then time folds again.

I used to act in college, but always comedy. Didn't do [William] Shakespeare - did Ben Jonson.

People cry at weddings for the same reason they cry at happy endings: because they so desperately want to believe in something they know is not credible.

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

Jimmy had been full of himself back then, thinks Snowman with indulgence and a little envy. He’d been unhappy too, of course. It went without saying, his unhappiness. He’d put a lot of energy into it.

The truth is seldom welcome, especially at dinner.

Powerlessness and silence go together.