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Things come to you without you necessarily knowing what they mean.

- Maurice Sendak

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I can't believe I've turned into a typical old man. I can't believe it. I was young just minutes ago.

I'm not Hans Christian Anderson. Nobody's gonna make a statue in the park with a lot of scrambling kids climbing up me. I won't have it, okay?

I feel like I don't have a lot of time left.

I remember how much - when I was a small boy I was taken to see a version of 'Peter Pan.' I detested it. I mean, the sentimental idea that anybody would want to remain a boy.

I had a brother who was my savior, made my childhood bearable.

Childhood is a tricky business. Usually, something goes wrong.

I have a little tiny Emily Dickinson so big that I carry in my pocket everywhere. And you just read three poems of Emily. She is so brave. She is so strong. She is such a sexy, passionate, little woman. I feel better.

When I did 'Bumble-ardy,' I was so intensely aware of death. Eugene, my friend and partner, was dying here in the house when I did 'Bumble-ardy'. I did 'Bumble-ardy' to save myself. I did not want to die with him. I wanted to live, as any human being does.

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Things come to you without you necessarily knowing what they mean.