“If your hands are that shaky, then, any chance of a hand job?”

“I don‟t feel awkward at all.”“Don‟t you?”“No. I‟m Daniel Fucking Cross.”I stopped and leaned against a shop front. “Oh. Well.” I drew in a deep breath. “Good. Good.”

“Patrick opens his arms about three feet wide and, with one finger pointing up on each hand, tries to show the scope of this thing. I notice that he doesn’t look at his hands as he does this, but at the wall behind me. It suddenly occurs to me that when people describe size this way, they’re relying on perspective to help them. He’s not saying ‘It’s this big.’ He’s saying ‘It would look this big from here if it was over there.”

“Sing with rapture and dance like a dervish.”

“Being fearless doesn't mean having an absence of fear. It means you press on in spite of fear.”

“An old book was a time capsule. When you opened the front cover, you opened a door to another world—a world accessible through a kind of looking glass made of hard-board and cloth. The author’s voice resonated in the reader’s head with the same words that had resonated in his own as he wrote them. He spoke to the reader from the past. What he had witnessed, experienced, learned, and discovered would live forever. You only had to turn a page to travel in time.”

“his get up and go had gone up and went”