I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of sceneryโair, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy.
There is a certain clinical satisfaction in seeing just how bad things can get.
I had decided I would put off the novel until I had gone to Europe and had a lover.
I felt dull and flat and full of shattered visions.
The day I went into physics class it was death.
If only a group of people were more important to me than the idea of a Novel, I might begin a novel.