Last time I talked to her she didn't sound like herself. She's depressed. It's awful what happens when people run out of money. They start thinking they're no good.

Science doesn't tell us what we should do. It only tells us what is.

Parenting is something that happens mostly while you're thinking of something else.

Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side.

How is it right to slip free of an old skin and walk away from the scene of the crime? We came, we saw, we took away and we left behind, we must be allowed our anguish and our regrets.

What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive. You keep your eyes open, you see this damned-to-hell world you got born into, and you ask yourself, 'What life can I live that will let me breathe in & out and love somebody or something and not run off screaming into the woods?

If you ask me, when something extraordinary shows up in your life in the middle of the night, you give it a name and make it the best home you can.