Man needs bread and hyacinths: one to feed the body, and one to feed the soul.

I am drawn to the ways in which we are shaped by people and by place.

when i reached the bottom, i finally understood what Guthrie meant when he shouted, "LIBERO!" It was a celebration of being alive

It wasn't that I was stupid ... It was just that there didn't seem to be a lot to say that someone wasn't already saying.

And what did I think when I was small and why did I forget? And what else will I forget when I grow older? And if you forget is it as if it never happened? Will none of the things you saw or thought or dreamed matter?

I was wishing I was invisible. Outside, the leaves were falling to the ground, and I was infinitely sad, sad down to my bones. I was sad for Phoebe and her parents and Prudence and Mike, sad for the leaves that were dying, and sad for myself, for something I had lost.

You know, maybe that's all anybody wants, is to be useful. And have somebody else notice it.