I was the only person in the world who thought it was a military duty to appear to be in a good mood.

The safe places could only be visited; they could only grant a momentary intuition of sanctuary. The moment always came when we had to return to our real life to face the wounds and grief indigenous to our homr by the river.

I do not have any other way of saying it. I think it happens but once and only to the very young when it feels like your skin could ignite at the mere touch of another person. You get to love like that but once.

The fruit tasted foreign but indigenous, like sunlight a tree had changed through patience.

It did not look like the work of God, but it might have represented the handicraft of a God with a joyous sense of humor, a dancing God who loved mischief as much as prayer, and playfulness as much as mischief.

My father wouldn't let me take typing in childhood.

I wrote to explain my own life to myself, stories are the vessels I use to interpret the world to myself.