listening quietly" was my general social strategy.

“You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have…”

“No," I said. And maybe it was only because Alaska couldn't hit the brakes and I…”

“The world went on, as it does, without my full participation, and I only woke u…”

“It was 2:49 in the morning. I had never, in my entire life, felt less tired.”