"Were we unusually dependent on one another the summer we swam and watched "Tenko" and went to dinner at Morton's? Or were we unusually lucky?" - Joan Didion

The objects for which there is no satisfactory resolution… In theory, these mementos serve to bring back the moment. In fact they serve only to make clear how inadequately I appreciated the moment when it was here.

Madness, it became convenient to believe quite early on, came with the territory, on the order of earthquakes.

"We tell ourselves stories in order to live...We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of five. We interpret what we see, select the most workable of the multiple choices. We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images, by the "ideas" with which we have learned to freeze the shifting phantasmagoria which is our actual experience."