Wolf in White Van

My 6 highlights

• It felt like so much was happening: I don’t lead a busy life.

• “I’ll tell you later” is a contingent claim that can be rendered false by any of several moves.

• He gave everybody a grave look, and they passed the same look around among themselves, and I felt, watching, like I was either missing out on something or being let in on a big secret: or someplace in the space between those two possibilities, drifting.

• This is why people cry at the movies: because everybody’s doomed. No one in a movie can help themselves in any way. Their fate has already staked its claim on them from the moment they appear onscreen.

• When, eventually, the climb up the stairs got to be too much, she moved downstairs, and the second floor became an accidental museum commemorating the last day anybody’d lived there.

• There is something fierce and starved about first ideas.