You’re training a new employee,' says Mrs. Clark, 'to take over your boring old job.' When you raise a child.

Maybe it's our sins that give God consolation when he finally has to give us cancer.

Since we do operate in a binary world, if there's something that cannot be this or that, it drives us crazy.

I'm living the life I love, I tell myself, and loving the life I live. I tell myself: I deserved this. This is exactly what I wanted.

Imagine books and music and movies being filtered and homogenized. Certified. Approved for consumption. People will be happy to give up most of their culture for the assurance that the tiny bit that comes through is safe and clean. White noise.

Could you hold the chainsaw a bit closer to your mouth, please?

Some of us are lucky enough to fall in love once or twice but the luckiest of us are those who find that someone they simply can't live without and have the pleasure of falling in love with them day in and day out for the rest of their lives. Relationships aren't about simply falling in love once and being done with it, they're about loving someone until the end of your days and growing that love endlessly.