We are now connected by something so tenuous,

nothing can break it.

– John Updike, as recounted in John Updike, His Stories, and Me by Molly Fisk

Just a lot of questions

asked during a fire.

– Laurie Anderson on "The Star-Spangled Banner"

People like me

and I want it to stop.

Storytelling reveals meaning

without committing the error of defining it.

—Hannah Arendt

The greatest gift you can give

is the weapon that can destroy you. 

You are alive inside

your closed eyes.