Even after the only person whose opinion I cared about left on a boat for America, I continued to fill pages with her name. - Nicole Krauss

Sometimes I think: I am older than this tree, older than this bench, older than the rain. And yet. I'm not older than the rain. It's been falling for years and after I go it will keep on falling.

The little boy I watched throwing pebbles into the empty fountain [...] You could tell that he had too much wisdom for his age. Probably he believed that he wasn't made for this world. I wanted to say to him: If not you, who?

Perhaps that is what it means to be a father- to teach your child to live without you. If so, no one was a greater father than I.