You can count the dead, but you can't count the cost. We've got no math for Heaven.

Part of me really wants to believe that hope is entirely available to all of us. We don't have to embrace it. It would be sentimental and silly to say that we all need it, but it is absolutely available to all of us.

I guess this is what marriage is, or was, or could be. You drop the mask. You allow the fatigue in. You lean across and kiss the years because they're the things that matter.

How inevitable it is; we step into an ordinary moment and never come out again.

People are good or half good or a quarter good, and it changes all the time- but even on the best day nobody's perfect.

Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive.

I write about what I know; and I write about things that are new to me, and that I didn't know before.