Sleeping alone seemed unnatural to me, and pitiful, something done in hospitals or when you're contagious.

If every U.S. citizen ate just one meal a week (any meal) composed of locally and organically raised meats and produce, we would reduce our country’s oil consumption by over 1.1 million barrels of oil every week. That's not gallons, but barrels. Small changes in buying habits can make big differences. Becoming a less energy-dependent nation may just need to start with a good breakfast.

Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need

But nothing on this earth is guaranteed, when you get right down to it, you know ? I've been thinking about that. About how your kids aren't really YOURS, they're just these people that you try to keep an eye on, and hope you'll all grow up someday to like each other and still be in one piece. What I mean is, everything you get is really just on loan. Does that make sense?" Sure,"I said. "Like library books. Sooner or later they've all got to go back into the nightdrop.

Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.

No kind of bomb ever built will extinguish hatred.

Once the rains abated, my father's garden thrived in the heat like an unleashed temper.