I Voluntarily Inflicted A Certain Level Of

Brooklyn Was Like Philadelphia Made Better By Its Proximity To Manhattan.

Deploring Other People--their Lack Of Perfection--had Always Been Our Sport.

Elective Ignorance Was A Great Survival Skill, Perhaps The Greatest.

I Can't Stomach Any Kind Of Notion That Serious Fiction Is Good For Us, Because I Don't Believe That Everything That's Wrong With The World Has A Cure.

The Pain Was Quite Extraordinary. And Yet Also Weirdly Welcome And Restorative, Bringing Him News Of His Aliveness And His Caughtness In A Story Larger Than Himself.