I choose to be with him for however many days or minutes we are granted, and to count myself blessed to have them.

"Jem?" he said. "Is it you, James?" "Who else?" Jem's voice.

My mom says you only need three people you can rely on to achieve self-actualization.

Perhaps, but you would not exist without a woman, would you? However little use you may find us, we are cleverer and more determined and more patient than men. Men may be stronger, but it is women who endure.

She unwrapped the blanket when she came in my door. You were inside it. She set you down on the floor and you started ranging around, picking things up, pulling my cat's tail—you screamed like a banshee when the cat scratched you, so I asked your mother if you were part banshee. She didn't laugh.

It's a coffee cup." She could hear the irritation in her own voice. "I know it's a coffee cup." "I can't wait till you draw something really complicated, like the Brooklyn Bridge or a lobster. You'll probably send me a singing telegram.

It is as great a thing to love as it is to be loved. Love is not something that can be wasted.