* Granddad used to be built like a tank. When I was little he was the strongest man ever. Just by looking at the width of his arms and wrist, I could tell that he was indestructible.

* Heavily drinking wipes my memory in a scary way. Even though I try to reconstruct what I’ve lived by putting together digicam snapshots, there are plenty of black holes in my memory.

* They barely knew each other when they had a full moon picnic on an east village rooftop….