“I like awkward moments. They are full of tension and suspense. Anything's possible or, at the very least, they are the source of some electric sizzle.”

“The world is full of impossibilities - some beautiful, some terrible - but sometimes, when you least expect it, they can become possible.”

“Any moment called now is always full of possibles.”

“Mount Kilauea spilled glowing lava like cords of orange neon-lighting from seemingly nowhere. In the blackness that engulfed the night, electric heat lit flowing streams that fell into the sea, disappearing in a cloud of steam with a sizzling splash.”

“Today was awkward, but I think that’s because it feels like a very awkward time. It isn’t about you, and it isn’tabout love. It’s about everything crashing together at once.”

“When I was young I was depressed all the time. But suicide no longer seemed a possibility in my life. At my age there was very little left to kill. It was good to be old, no matter what they said. It was reasonable that a man had to be at least 50 years old before he could write with anything like clarity.”