There is a pair of snakes who have learned to drive a car so recklessly that they would run you over in the street and never stop to apologize.

We need things, and the opposite of them, and we are so rarely completely comfortable.

Morning is an important time of day, because how you spend your morning can often tell you what kind of day you are going to have.

It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in this world is limited, and that eventually all of us will end up underneath some sheet, never to wake up. And yet it is always a surprise when it happens to someone we know. It is like walking up the stairs to your bedroom in the dark, and thinking there is one more stair than there is. Your foot falls down, through the air, and there is a sickly moment of dark surprise as you try and readjust the way you thought of things.

But the law is an odd thing. For instance, one country in Europe has a law that requires all its bakers to sell bread at the exact same price. A certain island has a law that forbids anyone from removing its fruit. And a town not too far from where you live has a law that bars me from coming within five miles of its borders.

Stretched out in front of me was my time as an adult, and then a skeleton, and then nothing except perhaps a few books on a few shelves.

If everyone fought fire with fire, the whole world would go up in smoke.