One thing you will discover is that life is based less than you think on what you’ve learned and much more than you think on what you have inside you….

They gave themselves up to the stars the way swimmers can surrender to the waves, and the stars took them without resistance..

The shelf was filled with books that were hard to read, that could devastate and remake one's soul, and that, when they were finished, had a kick lik….

Words were all he knew; they possessed and overwhelmed him, as if they were a thousand white cats with whom he shared a one-room apartment..