“I think I am ready for that. I think I am ready to be met.”

“I am interested in silences”

“There are long stretches of time when I don't know what I am doing,or what I have done - nothing mostly, but sometimesit would be nice to know what kind of nothing that was...”

“You can not libel the dead, I think, you can only console them.”

“Cats, I always think, only jump into your lap to check if you are cold enough, yet, to eat.”

“I do not think we remember our family in any real sense. We live in them instead”

“And, in fact, this is the tale that I would love to write: history is such a romantic place, with its jarveys and urchins and side-buttoned boots. If it would just stay still, I think, and settle down. If it would just stop sliding around in my head.”