I'm beginning to think that maybe it's not just how much you love someone. Maybe what matters is who you are when you're with them.

People always talked about a mother's uncanny ability to read her children, but that was nothing compared to how children could read their mothers.

She worded it a bit strongly, but I do find myself more and more struck by the differences between the sexes. To put it another way: All marriages are mixed marriages.

I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood to arrive.

Try Jesus, you won't regret it, a billboard read.

Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age.

One sad thing about this world is that the acts that take the most out of you are usually the ones that people will never know about. (from 'Celestial Navigation')