He is coming, and I am here.

I don't want to boss anyone and I don't want to be bossed.

I never understood why Clark Kent was so hell bent on keeping Lois Lane in the dark.

What are you doing?" Nothing. Breaking and entering. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.

...all of our laments could not add a single second to her life, not one additional beat of the heart, nor a breath.

When you live with a woman you learn something every day. So far I have learned that long hair will clog up the shower drain befor you can say "Liquid-Plumr"; that it is not advisable to clip something out of the newspaper before your wife has read it, even if the newspaper in question is a week old; that I am the only person in our two-person household who can eat the same thing for dinner three nights in a row without pouting; and that headphones were invented to preserve spouses from each other's musical excesses.

Our love has been the thread through the labyrinth, the net under the high-wire walker, the only real thing in this strange life of mine that I could ever trust.