“As we all came to discover the limitations of assimilation, we grew closer as a family”

“We liked to believe there is an alternate world, a better world, populated entirely by characters created by the yearnings of humanity--governing and inspiring themselves with all the lucidity wit which we rendered them.”

“Freedom is the only thing we must demand in life, for all other good things stem from it”

“Angst is not the human condition, it’s the purgatory between what we have and what we want but can’t get.”

“Sure, each night we staggered home, unfired, unglazed, already broken without knowing it. But at least we were trying.”

“When I was young, I spent my days and nights trying to impress future generations. I spent them. They’re gone. All because I was deathly afraid of being forgotten. And then came the regret. The worst things of all worst things.”

“Children sometimes know best and we chide them for being precocious. Then we grow aged and become again like children, and they call us wise.”