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Clare, I want to tell you, again, I love you. Our love has been the thread through the labyrinth, the net under the high-wire walker, the only real th...more

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Martin said, "It feels as though part of my self has detached and gone to Amsterdam, where it—she—is waiting for me. Do you know about phantom-limb sy...more

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There are several ways to react to being lost. One is to panic: this was usually Valentina's first impulse. Another is to abandon yourself to lostness...more

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Have you ever found your heart's desire and then lost it? I had seen myself, a portrait of myself as a reader. My childhood: days home sick from schoo...more

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It’s dark now and I am very tired. I love you, always. Time is nothing.

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When the woman you live with is an artist, every day is a surprise. Clare has turned the second bedroom into a wonder cabinet, full of small sculpture...more

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Now I wonder if it means that the future is a place, or like a place, that I could go to; that is go to in some way otherthan just getting older.

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Why is love intensified by absence?

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I am suddenly comsumed by nostalgia for the little girl who was me, who loved the fields and believed in God, who spent winter days home sick from sch...more

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one of the best and the most painful things about time traveling has been the opportunity to see my mother alive.

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After my mom died she ate my father up completely. She would have hated it. Every minute of his life since then has been marked by her absence, every ...more

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I go to sleep alone, and wake up alone. I take walks. I work until I'm tired. I watch the wind play with the trash that's been under the snow all wint...more

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‎I never wanted to have anything in my life that I couldn't stand losing. But it's too late for that.

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But now, I know, how absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird.

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Chaos is more freedom; in fact, total freedom. But no meaning.