“We couldn't understand because we were too far... and could not remember because we were traveling in the night of first ages, those ages that had gone, leaving hardly a sign... and no memories.”
“We were talking about my dad, remembering him as vividly as possible as possible because we knew we weren’t going to get any knew memories. We were holding on to the old ones as tightly as we could.”
“We were the wrong age for love and yet it was all we could think about.”
“If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't.”
“When I was your age, art was a lonely thing: no galleries, no collecting, no critics, no money. We didn't have mentors. We didn't have parents. We were alone. But it was a great time, because we had nothing to lose and a vision to gain.”
“Mother said we had reached the Age of Reason and had to be good now. We must have because we wanted Willy Starr instead.”