Maybe Grodzenski was showing me, with his quiet pride, the reason he hummed a little while he worked.

Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.

there are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad among others, and those who prefer to be sad alone.

That's what I do. Watch movies and read. Sometimes I even pretend to write, but I'm not fooling anyone. Oh, and I go to the mailbox.

When will you learn that there isn't a word for everything?

Wittgenstein once wrote that when the eye sees something beautiful, the hand wants to draw it. I wish I could draw you.

We met each other when we were young, before we knew enough about disappointment, and once we did we found we reminded each other of it.

Empty teacups gathered around her and dictionary pages fell at her feet.

It's one of those unforgettable moments that happen as a child, when you discover that all along the world has been betraying you.

...larger than life...I've never understood that expression. What's larger than life?

All the times I have suddenly realized that my parents are dead, even now, it still surprises me, to exist in the world while that which made me has ceased to exist.

When someone we love is snatched from us, it often feels very hard to make plans.Sometimes people feel like they have lost faith in the future, or they become superstitious.

You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal.

Self-respect will keep a man from being abject when he is in the power of enemies, and will enable him to feel that he may be in the right when the world is against him.

She poured a little social sewage into his ears.

The West has given the world the symphony, and the novel.

The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgment of reason, and perverts its liberty.

Fur is not murder, but it is quite expensive.

A lot of people don't think much about what land surveyors do. In a nutshell, we are the interpreters and providers of landmarks and records that directly impact real property.

I think I have some interesting things to say and I don't think anybody out there is saying them.

You basically only discover a new thing once.