If I offer you a glass of water, and bring back a cup of ice, I’m trying to teach you patience. And also that sometimes you get ice with no water, and later you’ll get water with no ice. Ah, but that’s life, no?


“If I aged twice as fast and lived twice as long as a normal person, would I be …”

“My fingernail itches. I need to scratch it with my skin.”

“The final few weeks in a town before you move always feel like vacation, like y…”

“What I call talking to God, you may call talking to myself. Of course, I’m flat…”