People die, terrible things happen. I know this now. You can't pick up and leave everything behind because there is too much sadness in the world and not enough places to go.

“Most of the time we're loved for what we can do rather than for who we are.”

“I saw it myself. An endless succession of mongrels and malingerers, the laziest…”

“Our friendship was like our writing in some ways. It was the only thing that wa…”

“But it never worked that way, and the sex just made her lonelier. I understood …”