Don't make a threat and then not do it.

I didn't go out looking for fights as a kid, but if it was necessary, I'd fight. Fighting was a daily thing where we lived.

My name is Luka I live on the second floor. I live upstairs from you, yes, I think you've seen me before.

I was the oldest child, and both my parents worked, so I had a great deal of responsibility from a very young age.

Yes I think I'm okay, walked into the door again.

And I really wanted a driver's license. I was 43, had my learner's permit and had failed the test once already - but that was in Riverhead, on Long Island.

If language were liquid, it would be rushing in. Instead here we are in a silence more eloquent than any word could ever be.