“Perhaps family itself, like beauty, is temporary, and no discredit need attach to impermanence.”

“Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.”

“...and here's a secret for you - everything beautiful is sad...gilded with impermanence...”

“The notion is called wabi-sabi life, like the cherry blossom, it is beautiful because of its impermanence, not in spite of it, more exquisite for the inevitability of loss.”

“The families of graduating seniors emptied out of cars, sheepish in uncommon splendor, like milling clans at the origin of a parade. There is something spent about the families of teenagers; possibly it's the look of exhausted loyalties. Perhaps it's only right that we grow overbig in someone else's space. Perhaps we need to tire and differentiate, leave and adapt.”

“...a genuine work of art, can never be false, nor can it be discredited through the lapse of time, for it does not present an opinion but the thing itself.”