Imagine that you are more than nothing. Evil made you, but you are no more evil than a child unborn. If you want, if you seek, if you hope, who is to say that your hope might not be answered?

What really holds their marriage together are mutual respect of an awesome depth, a shared sense of humor, faith that they were brought together by a force greater than themselves, and a love so unwavering and pure that it is sacred.

Humanity is a parade of fools, and I am at the front of it, twirling a baton.

Life is a train ride, and at the many stations along the route, people important to us debark, never to get aboard again, until by the end of the journey, we sit in a passenger car where most of the seats are empty.

I am basically a pretty good autodidact. I can teach myself things.

Loss is the hardest thing, I said. But it's also the teacher that's the most difficult to ignore.

Few human beings give of themselves to another as a dog gives of itself.