I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy.

“I have told the story I was asked to tell. I have closed it, as so many stories…”

“We didn't talk about problems, or parents, or automobiles, or ambitions. We tal…”

“Stories are what death thinks he puts an end to. He can't understand that they …”

“While we read a novel, we are insane—bonkers. We believe in the existence of pe…”