“I'm home and safe and filled with the comfort of being somewhere I've already been. The ruckus of homecoming is brutally enjoyable and everyone makes me feel like a champion. And all I had to do was stay away long enough.”

“If our greatest fear is to sink away alone and unremembered, the brutality that time will inflict upon each of us will always run stronger than any river's murky waves.”

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

“To be an honest writer, you have to be away from home, and totally alone in life.”

“It kills me how these days everyone has clinical justification for their strangeness.”

“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.”

“Being remembered is all anyone can ask from a lost love.”