Certain blood was being shed for uncertain reasons.

Let the story tell itself.

But in a story, which is a kind of dreaming, the dead sometimes smile and sit up and return to the world.

All that peace, man, if felt so good it hurt. I want to hurt it back.

Storytelling is the essential human activity. The harder the situation, the more essential it is.

you're never more alive than when you're almost dead.

I want you to feel what I felt. I want you to know why story-truth is truer sometimes than happening-truth.