There are all these moments you don't think you will survive. And then you survive.

She transforms once again into someone carefree, and I transform into someone whose only care is her.

I wish I could remember the moment when I was a kid and I discovered that the letters linked into words, and that the words linked to real things. What a revelation that must have been. We don't have the words for it, since we hadn't yet learned the words. It must have been astonishing, to be given the key to the kingdom and see it turn in our hands so easily.

I'm not a very happy person," I told him."But sometimes I can trick myself into thinking I am.

I will be the one to leave you.

It's only in the finer points that it gets complicated and contentious, the inability to realize that no matter what our religion or gender or race or geographic background, we all have about 98 percent in common with each other.... For whatever reason, we like to focus on the 2 percent that's different, and most of the conflict in the world comes from that.

The minute I knew I was in love was the minute when there was no question about it.