How amazing it is that friendships can become so full that you can't imagine what your life was like before them.

With all due respect, if you’re forty-three, then I’m a fetus.

The secret to living long is to have something to live for.

It is hard to stop seeing your son as a son and to start seeing him as a human being. It is hard to stop seeing your parents as parents and to start seeing them as human beings. It's a two-sided transition, and very few people manage it gracefully.

Is that all we need? Can the way we say each other's names encompass all our history, all our love, all our fear, all our fights, all our reunions, all of what we know about each other, all of what we don't know?

I guess I don't believe these things can ever be easy, although I also don't see why they have to be hard.

Fate has a strange way of making plans.