They just knew. And I think that's all you can ever ask from a friend.

So what's the point of using words nobody else knows or can say comfortably? I just don't understand that.

Charlie, you’re one of the most gifted people I’ve ever known. And I don’t mean in terms of my other students. I mean in terms of anyone I’ve ever met.

Everyone else is either asleep or having sex. I’ve been watching cable television and eating jello.

And I wonder if anyone is really happy. I hope they are. I really hope they are.

So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them.

As I was walking up the stairs to dad's old room, and I was looking at the photographs, I started thinking that there was a time when these weren't memories. That someone actually took the photograph, and the people in the photograph had just eaten lunch or something.