I'd rather chase the sun than wait for it.

I'm gonna hunt my life down and grab it.

I s'pose, I can't have it all my own way, can I? You can't drown in a person unless they let you.

My own eyes try to sleep, but they don't. They stay wide awake as time snarls forward and silence drops down, like measured thought.

July 24, 6:03 A.M. The laundry was warm and the rafters were firm, and Michael Holzapfel jumped from the chair as if it were a cliff... Michael Holzapfel knew what he was doing. He killed himself for wanting to live.

THE LAST WORDS OF MAX VANDENBURG: You've done enough.

The dilemma, of course, is that such people save their most important words for after, when the surrounding humans are unlucky enough to find them.