“The awe of discovering the unknown is the most exhilarating experience I can have.”

“It's as if my senses have become more perceptive.”

“Certain props make us feel better about ourselves and our lives.”

‘ Making the fleeting tangible is my way of resisting the impermanent nature of life.’ 

‘How can I take these feelings seriously when they are in fact echoes of what occurred long ago?’

“I know less but I see more.”

‘I know from experience that nothing makes us feel lonelier than feeling invisible.’

‘Am I writing to be seen, just to feel the gaze of my readers?’

‘Had our desire to fantasize been stronger than our grasp on reality?’ 

“Has my stock of memories grown so much in these sixty-eight years that it is beginning to inundate the number of things I can fantasize about, like an overflowing reservoir?”