Such sentences always end in silence, no matter how they may begin–indeed, this is the very essence of fate: that which we never quite manage to say.

Whether beautiful or terrible, the past is always a ruin.

When I look back on my childhood, my earliest memories seem like artifacts from a long-lost civilization: half-understood fragments behind museum glass.

They tell me we’re living in an information age, but none of it seems to be the information I need or brings me closer to what I want to know. In fact (I’m becoming more...