“And I realize how useless wails are and how gratuitous melancholy is.”
“We stand in silence for another moment and I realize how lucky I am to have someone I can be myself around in all my melancholy glory.”
“I can't help always falling upon it, and cry out with particular loudness and wailing, and become especially melancholy, when I see a dead love tied to a live love.”
“Okay. I could her deb wailing-in my head. This is the Lowcountry, Steve. That's how life goes around here.”
“If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live”
“I can be funny, because I have time to meditate about how to be funny, and I can repair my mistakes when I perform mistakes, and I can be a melancholy person in manners that are interesting, not only melancholy. With writing, we have second chances.”