Dally was so real he scared me.

Rat race is the perfect name for it,' she said. 'We're always going and going and going, and never asking where. Did you ever hear of having more than you wanted? So that you couldn't want anything else and then started looking for something else to want? It seems like we're always searching for something to satisfy is, and never finding it. Maybe if we could lose our cool we would.

I advise writing to oneself. If you don't want to read it, nobody else is going to read it.

I guess I just couldn't see standing there -- alive, talking, thinking, breathing, being -- one second, and dead the next. It really bothered me. Death by violence isn't the same as dying any other way, accident or disease or old age. It just ain't the same.

The difference is that was then, this is now.

I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight.

I used to be sure of things. Me, once i had all the answers. I wish i was a kid again, when i had all the answers