I immediately suspected there was much more to it than was being said.

Yes, time can be buoyed by wordlessness, but it needs to be anchored in words.

Some days are like this. And the only way to get through them is to remember that they are only one day, and that every day ends.

Bad Girl!" She chided. "I'm pretty sure Boris is a boy," I said. "Oh, I know," Mrs. Basil E. assured me. "I just like to keep him confused," Then she and Boris headed off with my future.

I have taken advantage of other people's weaknesses in order to cover my own.

The terrorists-those nineteen people, with hundreds or maybe thousands behind them-did the worst thing you can possibly imagine. But tens of millions people did the right thing...On 9/11, all the hatred and murder could not compare with the weight of love, of bravery, of caring.

Happiness is so rarely a part of my vocabulary, because for me it's so fleeting