The death of the music business was insane, but audio recordings have been around now for maybe 120 years. Books have been around for, what, nine centuries? So they're more entrenched than music.

What happens to the wide-eyed observer when the window between reality and unreality breaks and the glass begins to fly?

The low bird is not picked tenderly out of the dust by its fellows; rather, it is dispatched quickly and without mercy.

But in high school the business of irrevocable choices began. Doors slipped shut with a faint locking click that was only heared clearly in the dreams of later years.

That was what I wanted, but I don't need it to be gone. I can love you and I can love life and bear the pain all at the same time. I think the pain might even make the rest better, the way a good setting can make a diamond look better.

He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute.

It wasn't just love that held people together. There was secrets, and the price you paid to keep them.