Looking after a very sick child was the Olympics of parenting.

You travel here and you travel there, trying to get out from under the cloud, and nothing works, and then one day you realize you've been carrying the weather around with you.

That is how we lived, happily and without hope. I was very young then, and I did not miss having a future because I did not know I was entitled to one.

That is the trouble with happiness-all of it is built on top of something that men want.

Our own personal brand of courage - in relationships, in conflict, in our principles ­ - is as unique as our fingerprints.

And thus love makes fools of us all.

Andrew had a gift for deepening the incision he began.