The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later date.

“This above all, to refuse to be a victim. Unless I can do that I can do nothing.”

“I’m not sure which is worse: intense feeling, or the absence of it.”

“Glenn used to say the reason you can't really imagine yourself being dead was t…”

“At the very least we want a witness. We can't stand the idea of our own voices …”