Documents create a paper reality we call proof.
Old age: I fall asleep during the funerals of my friends.
New York is full of abandoned churches. A Godless city, but full of superstitions on every subject--art, money, sex, food, health.
If I play hard to get, soon the phone stops ringing altogether.
Scholarship can find little to say about the obvious.
Laughter and tears may not persuade, but they cannot be refuted.