Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

by Jonathan Safran Foer

“The Flight of the Bumblebee,” by Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov,

“But if you don’t tell me anything, how can I ever be right?” He circled something in an article and said, “Another way of looking at it would be, how could you ever be wrong?”

Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn’t have to invent a thing.