I think it's difficult to forget things that are unresolved.

I love the idea of a tiny window between the back stoop and the pantry, where the milkman would pass through the cheese. But of course, there is no milkman anymore. So somebody coming by the house and seeing the window would say, 'Oh, that must be original, because that's where the milkman passed the cheese through to the pantry.'

The crudest thing I've done as a teacher was to require students to write a national anthem for their country and sing it themselves.

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